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Article: Focus on Pediatrics: Practice makes perfect with NG tube insertion.
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- Patient Education Management
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Focus on Pediatrics
Practice makes perfect with NG tube insertion
Hands-on learning essential for success at home
When health care providers refer parents or caregivers of pediatric patients to the learning center at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia to be taught nasogastric (NG) tube insertion, they can be sure that the education is thorough.
The class where participants are taught how to insert an NG tube through the nose into the stomach for feedings is about one and a half hours. If a pump is used to administer the feedings, the additional teaching requires another hour and a half.
The lesson plan has proven ...