Enteral Feeding Support (PEG)
- with Medication
Overview
Who is this for?
Our Enteral Feeding Support (PEG) with Medication workshop It is aimed at carers and community support workers that frequently work with people with a Enteral feeding tube and who require medication via a Enteral tube.
outline
This course will discuss the care and maintenance of a Enteral Tube, Enteral feeding as well as medication administration methods such as machines. Participants will gain greater knowledge of Enteral feeding support, medication administration, common causes of infection, Enteral feeding requirements and safe and effective care. They will be confident and competent in the use of PEG machines and client care.
This workshop covers
ENTERAL FEEDING SUPPORT
- 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
MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION VIA AN ENTERAL TUBE
- Methods and equipment used to administer medication through an enteral tube.
- Basic understanding of the purpose of the medication and related storage requirements.
- Factors that affect medication delivery through a feeding tube.
- Common signs and symptoms of medication adverse reactions including reaction to medication and dosage errors.
CERTIFICATE
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be issued with a certificate of completion.
recommended Prerequisite workshops
While not mandatory, we recommend that students either hold a Medication Assistance for Care Workers certificate or have a solid understanding of medication administration
GROUP BOOKINGS
Discounts are available for group bookings. Please contact us on (02) 8076 4774.
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