Our CPD-accredited Enteral Feeding Training provides carers and nurses with the skills and clinical knowledge to deliver exceptional care for individuals with gastrostomies or jejunostomies in community settings, hospitals, and hospices.
This half-day Enteral Feeding Training is tailored for registered nurses, support workers, and healthcare assistants who have limited experience with enteral feeding or wish to refresh their clinical skills and knowledge in line with current best practice standards.
Our course enhances your clinical skills and knowledge in caring for people with gastrostomies or jejunostomies. You will learn about enteral feeding tubes and the procedures for feeding and medication administration.
Additionally, you will gain practical experience through simulated practice sessions that replicate real-life situations in PEG care that you may encounter in the community.
Our Enteral Feeding Training equips healthcare professionals with the essential knowledge and skills to provide safe, effective, high-quality care for clients who need enteral nutrition and medication.
In this course, you will explore the fundamentals of enteral feeding, understand the various types of feeding tubes, and address the specific care needs of children, young people, and adults using these devices.
We offer a comprehensive approach that combines theoretical knowledge with hands-on experience.
Course Overview:
We start the course with a detailed introduction to the structure and function of the gastrointestinal system, focusing on how it relates to enteral feeding.
Our clinical educators will provide a solid foundation for understanding the anatomical considerations when caring for clients requiring nutritional support.
Gain insights into various gastrostomy and jejunostomy options, including low-profile feeding devices and PEG tubes.
You will learn the features, benefits, and appropriate usage of these devices, ensuring person-centered client care.
Understand the clinical indications for placing a gastrostomy or jejunostomy tube.
This module covers the criteria for selection and the importance of timely intervention in client care.
Learn about your responsibilities in managing clients with gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes.
This module focuses on person-centred care, planning, and monitoring for potential complications.
Develop essential skills in stoma care and infection prevention.
This module emphasises the importance of maintaining stoma hygiene to reduce the risk of infection and support the client’s well-being.
Identify potential complications associated with gastrostomy and jejunostomy.
This module prepares you to recognise and manage issues that may arise during enteral feeding care.
Learn the techniques for administering enteral nutrition, including bolus feeds, and continuous pump feeds.
This module provides practical guidance to ensure safe and effective feeding practices.
Understand the principles of administering medications through gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes.
This module covers medication formulation and delivery, ensuring optimal absorption and client safety.
Engage in hands-on learning by attaching an extension tube to low-profile feeding devices in a simulated practice environment.
Then learn to flush the tube with water and attach feed via giving set to feed pump, or giving feed via gravity.
This module enhances your confidence in managing enteral feeding equipment.
Participate in simulated scenarios where you will learn to advance and rotate a PEG tube, and change the water in the balloon.
Superior Healthcare provides enteral feeding training to care providers, schools, nurseries, nursing homes, private hospitals, residential homes, and hospices.
We welcome individual care professionals, such as nurse managers, registered nurses, paramedics, senior care, healthcare assistants, and support workers.
Our enteral feeding training is perfect for those who want to refresh their skills and update their clinical knowledge.
Additionally, this CPD-accredited enteral feeding training helps meet nurse revalidation requirements.
Everyone in our complex team receives paid enteral feeding training upon joining, and annually as part of their refresher training.
We conduct training in Kent, Essex, Hampshire, East Sussex, and West Sussex.
Each location accommodates up to 10-12 delegates. For larger groups, we offer flexible options, such as providing multiple trainers on the same day or scheduling additional training days.
We also offer on-site training at healthcare providers’ premises. If your facility has a suitable training space, we can bring our expertise directly to you.
Our Training FacilitiesAre you a care professional or service looking to update your enteral feeding knowledge and clinical skills in line with best practices?
To get started complete the booking form or call 01227 771122.
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