High staff turnover is a great challenge in many long term care facilities. The quality of nursing care may suffer from the lack of experience and training of staff on the proper care of a resident being tube fed.
Feeding tubes are common in nursing homes today. Nursing Home administrators may be tempted to accept large number of residents with feeding tubes since payment is higher for residents with this skilled need. However, staffing ratios must take into consideration the time required for assessing and administering medications to the tube feeder.
We have developed a course offering 1.5 contact hours to assist nurse administrators in determining appropriate staffing needs, documentation guidelines as well as staff competency recommendations. This is also a great tool for staff RNs to increase their knowledge of the proper care of the tube fed long term care resident.
Minimiizing Tube Feeding Complications in the Long Term Care Setting
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