About Alternative Feeding Methods
Tracking # 20-896484
Course overview
Many of the people you provide care to are older adults with multiple chronic conditions. The combination of multiple conditions may interfere with older adults chewing, swallowing, and digestive function. Individuals with cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease or dementia may no longer know how to eat or swallow. These conditions create difficulty for maintaining a healthy nutritional status. This course discusses standard alternative feeding methods, such as intravenous therapy, enteral nutrition, and total parenteral nutrition. It also discusses the role of the direct care worker when caring for people who are receiving alternative feeding methods.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Florida Board of Nursing - Certified Nursing Assistants
Certified Nursing Assistant
Disclosure statements
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.