Enteral Feeding Tubes and Devices - Child Nursing  

Read the illustrated guides to Enteral feeding on ClinicalSkills.net here

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Inserting a Nasogastric tube in children  

Administering an enteral feed via a nasogastric tube in children  

Testing the position of a gastrostomy device 

Daily care and Observation of a gastrostomy site 

Maintaining patency of a Gastrostomy (flushing) 

Replacing water in the balloon of a balloon-inflatable gastrostomy 

Click on the button below to navigate to the 'Take a Test' area of ClinicalSkills.net. Please make sure you're logged into ClinicalSkills.net already, otherwise you may not be able to open and take the test. Once you have reached the 'Take a Test' area, select 'Standard Tests' and then click on the test called 'Feeding and Nutrition in Infants and Children' and Nasogastric (NG) Tube Insertion - Child in 'Local Tests' to begin. You will need to score 80% or more to pass. Make sure you've read the ClinicalSkills.net procedure thoroughly before taking the test as many of the answers will be found within there!

Nutricia Flocare simulator:

www.nutriciaflocare.com/Flocare2020/InfinityPLUS_Simulator.php 

Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation:

www.feedingtubeawareness.org 

Book: Oxford handbook of clinical skills for children's and young people's nursing- chapter 15:

https://shu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44SHU_INST/at0fmn/alma9930207502501 

Date reviewed:  November 2022

Next review: November 2023