Nutrition and elimination

Nutrition screening, helping people eat, dysphagia, enteral feeding and urinary and bowel elimination.

5 pages

Fundamental

• Bowel elimination: constipation, enemas and faecal impactionNurses check the bowel pattern every day, prevent constipation and give enemas as ordered, alert…
• Nutrition screening and helping patients eatNurses spot the risk of malnutrition early (weight, intake, swallowing) and help the patient eat…
• Urinary elimination: retention, incontinence and bladder scanningNurses assess voiding, scan the bladder for a residual when retention is suspected, and manage…

Safe practice

• Dysphagia and aspiration precautionsIf the patient has trouble swallowing, sit them upright, use the ordered texture and stop…

Procedure

• Enteral feeding: checking the tube, feeding and careBefore using the tube, check its position, raise the head of the bed to 30–45°, flush with water…

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← Nursing: fundamentals and procedures

Educational content for students; it does not replace your institution's protocols, supervised clinical training or a prescriber's order. Dose-calculation examples use made-up numbers: they are educational, not a clinical order.

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