Feeding Tube Daily Care Checklist Even the most experienced caregivers need to brush up on their skills from time to time. We encourage you to click the link above to print out a PDF version of the following Feeding Tube Daily Care Checklist and share it with your staff. Are there any elements of proper enteral care that are being overlooked at your facility? Check the resident for any pain, discomfort or pressure around the tube exit site. Check the tube exit site for skin irritation, inflammation or other signs of infection, gastric leakage or formula leakage. Rotate the external retention disk one quarter turn each day to relieve pressure on the skin and allow for aeration. Clean the tube exit site, gastrostomy tube and its external retention ring. Check the height of the external retention ring with the resident in both the sitting and supine positions. The retention ring should lie just on top of the skin. It might need to be adjusted if it is too tight on the skin or too high off the skin. Verify placement of the tube before every feeding, or several times a day for continuous feeding. This is done one of four ways: by checking the graduation marks, aspiration of gastric contents, air auscultation or, if there are any questions, by X-ray verification. Verify that the resident has received the amount of fluid during the past 24 hours that he/she should have received according to the physician’s orders (allow flexibility up to 150cc unless an exact fluid intake is critical for the resident). Change the enteral feeding bag and/or spike set per facility policy/manufacturer’s guidelines, or at least every 24 hours. Ensure the irrigation syringes on the bedside are labeled with the resident name, date and usage. Provide mouth care, including teeth, gums and tongue. Remember, if a recently placed G-tube is pulled out, the tube tract will begin to close within two to four hours unless a new G-tube is inserted into the gastrostomy tract. Professional Medical can meet all of your facility’s enteral feeding needs. We offer pumps, enteral nutrition, accessories and in-servicing to ensure that your residents are receiving the best possible care. To learn more, give us a call at (800) 648-5190 or visit www.promedsupply.com.

We Want to Introduce You to The Perfect Survey Every month, we offer complimentary online tours of Compliance Solutions: For the Perfect Survey Every Day, our exclusive Web-based survey preparation tool. We're confident that once you learn more about The Perfect Survey, you'll see that it will be a valuable component of your preparation strategy. It's ideal for prepping for both the QIS and traditional survey! During the webinar, we'll introduce you to the site's contents, including the actual forms that surveyors use, guidance broken down by F tag and care area and exclusive tips from industry

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The Compliance® Enteral Pump is easy to program and many of its functions can be activated with a single touch. Reliable and accurate, this pump is designed to give the user easy access to its many useful features. Additional features: Handy programming directions are located directly on the pump Resident mobility is easy, thanks to a built-in pole clamp Convenient one-hand loading Large, easy-to-read display windows Dose Check records the accumulated amount of formula delivered over several feedings One four-second touch of the Clear button clears all displays (except total accumulated dose) Easy-to-differentiate audible and visual alarms Easy-to-clean smooth plastic case Memory is preserved in the event of a power failure and when the unit is turned off Dose Limit can be set in 1 ml increments up to 2000 ml, then in 5 ml increments up to 9999 ml Caps are kept close by a special cap holder that also helps prevent contamination Both day or night operation are simple, thanks to the adjustable display brightness

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