In: Nursing
Provide Nursing Interventions: Continuous tube feeding
-Monitor the patient for feeding tolerance.
-monitoring the patient nutritional status during the hospitalization --> helps to identifyif the patients nutritional goals are met.
-daily weight checking -->weight gain oe loss can be monitored.
-strict monitoring hourly intake and output -->it provides a snapshot of a patient's current fluid balance and helps assess for pending dehydration or fluid overload.
-monitoring the patient's bowel sounds, flatus, and bowel movements -->help determine appropriate GI motility before and during feeding.
-The nurse will provide mouth and lip care to the patient every four hours throughout thehospitalization.
-assess the skin integrity -->malnutrition increases a patient risk for developing pressure ulcers.
-monitor for signs and symptoms of fluid overload -->it is also neccessary to assess for skin breakdown around the feeding tube site.
-provide comfort position to the patient,keeping the head of the bed elevated atleast 30 degrees --> it can help faciliate gastric emptying and prevent aspiration of feeddue to gastric reflux.