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Certification of Staff Nurses to Insert Enteral Feeding Tubes Using a Research-Based Procedure

Susan K. Welch, RN, BSN, CNSN

Nutritional Support, Scott & White Clinic and Memorial Hospital; Scott, Sherwood and Brindley Foundation, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, Texas

Nutrition Support Nurse Clinicians at a Central Texas tertiary care facility have developed a research-based nasoenteric feeding tube insertion procedure that minimizes the potential for inadvertent passage of a feeding tube containing a stylet into the respiratory tract and maximizes placement of the feeding tube in the desired gastric or duodenal location. The first 79 staff nurses to be certified to use the technique had a 90% duodenal placement success rate under supervision. No bedside feeding tube insertion complications have been noted since the initiation of the certification program 6 years ago. This article describes the feeding tube insertion technique used in the certification process and the research on which it is based.

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 11, No. 1, 21-27 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/011542659601100121
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