How to Care for a Child with a Feeding Tube

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Description

This webinar will provide general information on how to care for a child with a feeding tube.

Target Audience

Unregulated care providers in Ontario working in home and community care settings.

Objectives

  1. Describe what it means to be an unregulated care provider​
  2. Describe different types of feeding tubes and their location in the body 
  3. Explain the routine care of a feeding tube
  4. Describe how to recognize something is wrong with the feeding tube or the skin around it 
  5. Outline how to keep a child with a feeding tube safe

This course is broken up into a series of videos and a final quiz. All videos must be watched and Marked Complete and a score of 80% achieved on the quiz to complete the course. 

Course Content

Introduction
Types of Feeding Tubes & Securement
Skin Care & Problems around Feeding Tubes 
Feeding & Flushing
Feeding Tube Problems
Key Points, Feedback and Certificate of Attendance 
UCP: How to Care for a Child with a Feeding Tube