Home Tube Feeding

Nutrition Tools & Tips for Caregivers & Patients
These educational resources aim to empower patients and caregivers with the knowledge and tools needed to manage tube feeding at home effectively. By providing comprehensive support, we hope to make the transition to home tube feeding as smooth and stress-free as possible.
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Good Nutrition When Bolus Feeding at Home

This short, animated video shows how to use the bolus feeding method to give your body nutrition through your feeding tube. It also explains important safety tips to remember before, during and after your feedings.

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Good Nutrition When Gravity Feeding at Home

​​This short, animated video shows how to use the gravity feeding method to give your body nutrition through your feeding tube. It also explains important safety tips to remember before, during and after your feedings.​

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Good Nutrition When ​​Pump Feeding at Home

This short, animated video shows how to use the pump feeding method to give your body nutrition through your feeding tube. It also explains important safety tips to remember before, during and after your feedings.

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Good Nutrition When Tube Feeding at Home

This video highlights how tube feeding, also known as enteral nutrition, is an important way of delivering good nutrition and fluids to the body for people unable to meet their nutritional needs. The video also highlights ways tube feedings can be delivered and key considerations for developing an appropriate feeding plan.

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Gastronomy Site Troubleshooting Checklist

In this video, Cynthia Reddick, RD, CNSC, an expert in home tube feeding, highlights the gastrostomy site trouble shooting checklist, a resource that shares practical strategies for identifying and addressing gastrostomy tube site challenges. This resource is ideal for healthcare professionals assisting patients with home tube feedings, helping them develop effective action plans.​.

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Bolus Feeding at Home

This infographic shows how to use the bolus feeding method to give your body nutrition through your feeding tube. It also explains important safety tips to remember before, during and after your feedings.

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Gravity Feeding at Home

This infographic shows how to use the gravity feeding method to give your body nutrition through your feeding tube. It also explains important safety tips to remember before, during and after your feedings.'

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Pump Feeding at Home

This infographic shows how to use the pump feeding method to give your body nutrition through your feeding tube. It also explains important safety tips to remember before, during and after your feedings.

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Gastronomy Site Troubleshooting Checklist

This printable resource shares practical strategies for identifying and addressing gastrostomy tube site challenges. This resource is ideal for healthcare professionals assisting patients with home tube feedings, helping them develop effective action plans.

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Guide to Adult Tube Feeding at Home

This booklet is a helpful guide for patients and caregivers on enteral nutrition, also known as tube feeding. This booklet has undergone review and approval by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN).

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Pediatric Tube Feeding for Parents & Caregivers

In this resource, we’ve included best-practice guidance from leaders of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) from their newly-published practical handbook for professionals. Our goal is to guide parents through this new experience of tube-fed nutrition for their child.

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Practical Management of Home Tube Feeding

In this course, Cynthia Reddick, RD, CNSC, will identify options and innovations in home enteral nutrition; describe the considerations for the use of whole food formulas in the home setting; differentiate options for customizing home enteral nutrition administration for the homecare patient; and describe aspects of enteral nutrition tolerance and strategies for complication management.

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Choosing Wisely: Enteral Feeding Tube Selection, Placement & Considerations

In this course, Cynthia Reddick, RD, CNSC, will identify considerations in tube feeding selection; review the anatomy of a gastric tube (GT) placement; differentiate between standard profile and low profile feeding tubes; and review the various types of access devices used in long-term tube feeding.

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Successful Transition of Tube Feeding: From Hospital to Home

In this course, Cynthia Reddick, RD, CNSC, will identify several key considerations when discharging a patient home on tube feeding; describe feeding regiment adjustments that may improve adherence and lifestyle for the tube-fed patient at home; and differentiate homecare-friendly options of formula and supplies available to the home tube-fed patient.

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Good Tubes Gone Bad: Management & Prevention of Common Tube Site Complications

In this course, Cynthia Reddick, RD, CNSC, will describe the normal healing and stoma maturation process after the initial placement of a gastrostomy tube; identify three potential stoma site complications of gastrostomy tubes at home; describe interventions and solutions to common minor stoma site complications; and describe strategies and best practice techniques for preventing common minor stoma site complications.