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Certification of Staff Nurses to Insert Enteral Feeding Tubes Using a Research‐Based Procedure
Author(s) -
Welch Susan K.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/011542659601100121
Subject(s) - medicine , certification , stylet , feeding tube , enteral administration , tube (container) , nursing staff , nursing , parenteral nutrition , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , surgery , mechanical engineering , engineering , political science , law
Nutrition Support Nurse Clinicians at a Central Texas tertiary care facility have developed a research‐based nasoenteric feeding tube insertion procedure that minimizes the potential for inadvertent passage of a feeding tube containing a stylet into the respiratory tract and maximizes placement of the feeding tube in the desired gastric or duodenal location. The first 79 staff nurses to be certified to use the technique had a 90% duodenal placement success rate under supervision. No bedside feeding tube insertion complications have been noted since the initiation of the certification program 6 years ago. This article describes the feeding tube insertion technique used in the certification process and the research on which it is based.