Pre-Lab Activities: Nutrition and Metabolism
Basic Nursing Skills
Patients in the community and hospital settings often have various tubes and attachments to assist their recovery from surgeries, medical conditions, or procedures. Health care providers, especially nurses, must be competent in understanding how these devices work — their purpose, function, insertion, or removal — how to prevent complications from these various tubes and attachments, and ultimately, to care for the client with these tubes or attachments. Remember we render care to the client with the tube, and not the other way around.
N-11 Skills Procedure for this session will include the following list. While going through the different steps or procedures, take note of the equipment to be prepared, the rationale and additional responsibilities the nurse needs to consider. Refer to the N11 Skills Procedure e-Manual.
- Capillary Blood Glucose monitoring
- Inserting a Nasogastric Tube (NGT)
- Administering a Tube Feeding
- Removing an NG Tube
For the following skills procedure, refer to Kozier's Fundamentals of Nursing.
- Administering a Gastrostomy or Jejunostomy Feeding
- Administering Parenteral Nutrition
Watch the following nursing skills video: Nutrition and Metabolism Resource Video
- Capillary Blood Glucose Monitoring
- Nasogastric (NG) Tube Insertion
- Administering a Tube Feeding
- Removing an NG Tube
There are cases when clients go home with their NG Tube as required for long-term therapy. Thus, the nurse has the responsibility to teach the client on the care, proper feeding, and when to have it replaced.