Professional Practice Skills

This 3 part short video series covers the various types of enteral feeding tubes, demonstrates general guidelines and techniques for their care and use. Videos include: Part 1-- Tube Identification, Part 2 — Administering Formula and Medication, and Part 3 — Daily Care and Troubleshooting. (Medcom-Trainex, 2021)

This video demonstrates how to provide enteral feedings. (Elsevier, 2021)

This video demonstrates the administration of parenteral nutrition through a central line.(Elsevier, 2021)

This video demonstrates how to manage a nasogastric tube. (Elsevier, 2021)

This instructional film provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to administer continuous tube feeding using a feeding pump and a pre-filled, closed tube feeding set-up. (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2007 added 2015)

Mealtime is often the most important part of the day for residents in a long-term care facility. This program reviews proper technique and care in serving meals and addresses special feeding circumstances and solutions.
Source: National Educational Video, 2004

This program describes types of nasogastric tubes, looks at indications and contraindications for their use, demonstrates how to properly insert a tube, identifies signs of respiratory distress that indicate the tube has entered the trachea, and describes how to verify placement of the tube in the stomach. It also reviews the procedure for removing a tube and explains what to document. (Medcom-Trainex, 2021)

This video covers the basic techniques for the care and replacement of a balloon gastrostomy tube. It lists health conditions that commonly require the use of a gastrostomy tube, identifies key features of replacement balloon gastrostomy tubes, the steps for proper care of all components of a balloon gastrostomy tube, describes the use of a daily maintenance checklist for the gastrostomy tube, the supplies needed for replacement of a balloon gastrostomy tube, and shows how to properly replace a balloon gastrostomy tube. (Medcom-Trainex, 2021)