Feeding tube

unless your BMI remains low. Comfort feeding is also suggested as a means to provide a person with food. Comfort feeding “does not provide adequate nutrition”8. It is just a means to “eliminate feelings of hunger or thirst”8. Comfort feeding can be defined as hand feeding small portions of food or liquids frequently throughout the day. It is geared towards the idea of providing comfort to the patient, allow time for social interaction, and avoid risks of tube…

The court issued an order that allowed the hospital to force feed her by inserting a nasogastric tube. According to medscape.com a nasogastric is a medical process involving the insertion of a plastic tube through the nose, past the throat, and down into the stomach. The first unethical practice that i notices in this case was that the hospital is going against the patient's wishes and follows their…

In our nursing 110 class, professional nursing practice has been studied, using the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC) Standards of Practice. In this paper, I focus on Ethical Practice Standard 4, and talk about the ethics involved in nursing by describing a narrative that includes many moral decisions that a nurse could potentially be involved in. The Narrative Ed (a name used to protect client confidentiality) is a 95 year old man living in a long term care facility,…

body couldn't do. Once admitted into the hospital, Elizabeth's disease turned for the worse and was forced feed when she refused to eat and had a morphine drip tube permanently attached her chest. 2.Elizabeth checked into Riverside General Hospital, with the intent to end her life from starvation. When the hospital staff inserted a feeding tube and violated…

hospital, I told you she was getting tests and all that fun stuff done, and she was. But she also had surgery that day. It was nothing big and it only lasted about 20 minutes. They put something called a G-Tube in. It’s a feeding tube but it’s located near the stomach area. She has had feeding tubes before but not like this. The doctors would like…

Voluntary active euthanasia and Physician assisted suicide, is there no morally relevant difference? Some may say there is no morally relevant distinction between voluntary active euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Voluntary active euthanasia requires the involvement of the physician in the act itself; whereas physician assisted suicide requires the physician to prescribe the medication that the patient can later take to kill him or herself. Brock states that in both cases, the decision…

about a DNR order or withdrawal of care or even rarely about organ donation. However, it never comes to my mind that, it will be about a G-Tube placement. I'm really curious to know the religious or cultural background of that family. I don't claim that I know everything about all cultures or religions in the Middle East, but I never encounter or knew about a G-tube controversy in any culture or religion in the Middle East. My concern is that the patient family simply doesn't agree with the…

must have up to date immunizations, otherwise, they are not allowed to attend school until all of the required vaccines are received. In similar like a clinical nurse, a school nurse is also responsible for proper use of nebulizers and insulin, feeding tubes, ventilators, administering medications to students with health conditions and other health issues as needed. The school is responsible to store all types of medication in her office and give them to students. In other words, students…

Incorrect nasogastric tube placement is becoming a major problem in healthcare. This is evident due to about 1.9% of feeding tubes are misplaced (Sparks et al, 2011) and commonly leads to pneumothorax in one in five people and death in one in thirty-nine. (Taylor, 2014). These errors directly affect the patient causing him or her to accrue a larger bill and longer hospital stay. Neither of which is good. There are several factors that attribute to these errors such as old practices of…

Adult Health III Reflective Journal 5 My goal for this clinical was to understand the interventions that were part of my patient’s plan of care. My patient was in the hospital because of a gunshot wound and he also had acute respiratory distress syndrome from pulmonary edema. My patient had an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) done in his room. The gastroenterologist was in the patient room with members of the surgery team to place a device called a bear claw. My patient had a small bowel…