This is dependent on where the tube is placed and where it will enter the GI tract.
What is the selection of formula?
100
This infusion is administered over a 30 to 60 minute period.
What time frame is the intermittent feed usually administered over?
100
Formula should be maintained at this temperature.
What is room?
100
Continuous feedings are best administered via an infusion pump at a constant rate over a set number of hour period.
What is 8- to 24- hour period?
100
The common complication of nausea and diarrhea are related to this problem.
What is the patient's inability to tolerate the type of formula?
200
The patient's ability to digest and absorb nurtrients will determine this.
What is the type of formula used?
200
This feeding is administered over a 8- to 24- hour period.
What time frame is used for a continous feeding?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!! BET?
Room temperature formula decreases this problem.
What is gastric discomfort?
200
Continuous feedings should be interrupted every 4 hours hours for these reasons.
What are to check placement, and residual volume, to administer water for hydration if ordered, and to flush the tube to prevent clogging?
200
The patient that cannot tolerate a certain type of formula should have the doctor do this.
What is change the formula to a different type?
300
This formula contains provides 1 kcal/mL of solution and is porportionally balanced
What is standard formula?
300
This type of feeding is used in patients who are on longterm enteral feedings and no longer acutely ill.
When are intermittent tube feedings used?
300
The size of this will determine the size and type of syringe tip that can be used.
What is size of the feeding tube?
300
The head of bed should be raised at 30 degrees during a continuous infusion feeding to reduce the risk of.
What is aspiration?
300
If a feeding tube clogs what is the best method used to prevent feeding tubes from clogging.
What is flush the tube before and after feedings?
400
Contains macronutrients that are predigested or have been partially or fully broken down to components that require little digestion before absorption.
What is hydrolyzed formula?
400
Feedings are divided into equal portions and scheduled over the course of the day, or scheduled only during waking hours to provide patients with uninterrupted sleep time.
How is an intermittent tube feeding dose determined?
400
The bending or crimping of the tubing just below where it attaches to the syringe will prevent this.
What is prevent formula from flowing through the feeding tube before you are ready?
400
Checking for tube placement is essential. Name the safety issue if the tube is not in place for NG, PEG and J-tube.
What is instilling the formula or medication directly into the lungs for NG tubes and into the sterile perioneal cavity via a PEG or J-tube?
400
What adverse event puts the patient at risk for additional serious illness.
What is aspiration?
500
Contains redulced levels of potassium, sodium and nitrogen.
What are renal formulas?
500
This is a type of intermittent feeding that is used frequently, in which a physician-oredered volume of formula is administered at set intervals throughout the day.
What is a bolus feeding?
500
You do this to prevent air from entering the tube in between refilling the syringe.
What is continued pouring or bending the tubing while you refill the syringe?
500
In addition to checking for placement what also must be done prior to administration of a tube feeding.
What is checking for gastric residual?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!! BET?
Name the metabolic problems that are potential complications of tube feedings?
What are hyperglycemia, dehydration, fluid overload or electrolyte imbalances?