A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING ENTERAL FEEDING AMONG STAFF NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITAL, UJJAIN, M.P.

Abstract

Enteral feeding refers to the delivery of nutritionally complete feed, containing protein, carbohydrate, fat, water, minerals, and vitamins directly into the stomach, duodenum, or jejunum. Gastroenteric tube feeding plays a major role in the management of patients with poor voluntary intake, chronic neurological or mechanical dysphagia, or gut dysphagia, and in patients who are chronically ill. Enteral nutrition is often used for children as well as for adults. Children may require enteral feeding for a wide range of underlying conditions such as malnutrition, metabolic disorders, and neuromuscular disorders.

Nasogastric tube feeding is a technique that can meet the bodies’ nutrition supply and treatment needs. It is conducted by inserting a catheter from the nasal cavity into the gastrointestinal tract, and then infuses water, liquid food, drugs, etc. into the tube. Due to the limitation of the feeding of critically ill patients, nutrition therapy is often performed in the clinic to ensure sufficient nutrition supply, which is conducive to good treatment effect and prognosis. Patients are vulnerable to inadequate nutritional supplements and catheter-related adverse events as a result of the complications occurring during nasogastric tube nutrition therapy, further affecting the treatment of patients.