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Enteral Devices
Feeding Tube Placement
Enteral Feedings
Intestinal Decompression
Nursing Assessment & Management
100
NG tube stands for...
Nasogastric (tube)
100
Before inserting a feeding tube you want to assess the client's _____.
Bowel sounds
100
What are the 4 ways enteral feedings can be ordered?
Bolus, Intermittent, Cyclic, and Continuous
100
May be used to try and avoid surgery in a client with a bowel obstruction.
Intestinal Decompression
100
The action necessary by the nurse when an obstruction occurs in a feeding tube and the nurse is unable to clear it.
Remove the tube
200
Salem sump tubes can be used for feeding and ______.
Suction
200
After inserting a feeding tube you ______ gastrointestinal secretions to see if the stomach is full.
Aspirate
200
Who orders the frequency of feedings and amounts to be administered?
The physician
200
Type of tube used to perform intestinal decompression
Tungsten-weighted, (Maxter tube)
200
What a nurse consults with the dietician to do when a significant water deficit is identified in a client receiving tube feedings.
Increase hydration
300
A nasointestinal tube is inserted through the nose and ends in the _____.
Small intestines
300
When checking for proper placement of a NG tube, the pH of gastric secretions should be _____.
Less than 4
300
Feedings typically used to help wean clients from tube feedings and administered during sleeping hours.
Cyclic feedings
300
An action the nurse is sure to remember when nasointestinal tubes are discontinued.
Remove slowly
300
What the nurse does after measuring and recording the aspirated residual.
Reinstill the aspirated fluid
400
Gastrostomy and Jejunostomy are used for long-term nutritional support, usually more than ____ .
1 month
400
One way of verifying placement is to _____ the epigastric area while injecting air.
Auscultate
400
Feeding schedule administered over a 24 hour period using an infusion pump and appropriate for unconscious clients.
Continuous
400
The first action the nurse performs before beginning the nasointestianl decompression tube removal process.
Remove from suction source
400
Tube feedings are stopped due to a high residual, the nurse waits ___________ before rechecking gastric residuals.
30 minutes
500
______ tubes are used when risk for aspiration is high.
Nasointestinal
500
What is the most reliable way to confirm feeding tube placement?
Radiography/ X-ray
500
How often tube-feeding administration sets are replaced regardless of feeding schedule.
Every 24 hours
500
The second phase of nasointestinal decompression tube removal is slowly withdrawing the tube 6 - 10 inches at _________ intervals.
10 minute
500
Should be routinely assessed and be no more than 100mL.
Gastric Residual