Online Clinical Nutrition

This interactive, narrated, self-paced online course focuses on the basics of providing care to adult and pediatric patients requiring enteral therapy, with emphasis on the home care environment. Topics include:

• Types and parts of feeding tubes, accessories, and enteral nutrition products
• Care and management of feeding tubes, including insertion and removal, placement verification, and ongoing maintenance
• Types of formula
• Enteral feeding routines, including bolus, intermittent, and continuous
• Enteral feeding methods, including administration using syringe, gravity drip, and enteral food pump
• Venting air from a feeding tube

This Home Parenteral Nutrition course builds on foundational knowledge presented in PHS' IV Basics course. Completion of IV Basics is strongly recommended before taking this course.

This interactive, narrated, self-paced online course focuses on how to care for adult and pediatric patients receiving home parenteral nutrition therapy. There is an emphasis on the home care environment. Topics include:

• Indications for Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN)
• Nutrition assessment
• Goals of HPN therapy
• Primary components of HPN
• HPN delivery modes
• HPN setup and administration
• Nutrition Support Teams
• Potential complications
• Patient and caregiver education