Enteral Feeding Support (PEG)

Overview

Our Enteral Feeding Support workshop equips support workers and carers with the essential skills to safely support individuals with Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) feeding. Participants will learn to care for the stoma site, identify signs of infection, manage equipment issues, and practise using enteral feeding tubes and a Kangaroo pump. Aligned with the NDIS Practice Standards, this training supports safe, competent care under the High Intensity Daily Personal Activities Module and helps providers meet their obligations under the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework.

Who is this for?

For carers and support workers.

outline

Our training has been designed to familiarise participants with the cause and approaches of PEG tube feeding. It aims to provide an understanding of the correct, best practice techniques and methods for enteral feeding and management. It also emphasizes the value of privacy, dignity, and respect for the service user. 

 

This workshop covers

  • Basic anatomy of the digestive system
  • Basic terminology
  • What is a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) tube?
  • Indications for a gastrostomy tube
  • Principles for infection control
  • Scope of worker responsibilities, including supervision and delegation arrangements
  • Roles and responsibilities of others involved in providing enteral feeding support including carers, health practitioners and other workers
  • Types and safe handling of formulas, including storage and preparation requirements
  • Types of feeding, the main equipment components and their function, for example, types of tubes, pump, feeding mechanism including gravity drip feed or syringe feed
  • Basic procedures to maintain stoma, according to stoma type, such as cleaning and protecting skin around the stoma
  • Signs of a healthy stoma and how these can change over time
  • Purpose and methods for correct participant positioning
  • Indicators and action required to respond to common health problems at the stoma site, such as changes in appearance of the skin, wetness or signs of infection or inflammation
  • The impact of associated health conditions and complications that interact with enteral feeding, for example, reflux, constipation, breathing difficulties and dysphagia, diarrhoea, vomiting and bloating and the management of these
  • Health-related indicators such as unexpected weight gain or loss, dehydration, allergic reaction a wet cough, diarrhoea and constipation
  • When and how to involve or get advice from the health practitioner
  • Meal management plans, reporting responsibilities, including handover, recording observations and incident reporting
  • Identifies common alarms and action required to deactivate alarms, and address issues such as a pump alarm associated with a kinked or blocked feed in the tube and dislodged tubes

Certificate

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be issued with a Certificate of Completion.

Group Bookings

Discounts are available for group bookings. Please contact us on (02) 8076 4774.

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