Tube Feeding (PEG and PEJ) Training for Support Workers: Face-to-Face Training
Tube Feeding Management : Face-to-Face Training
Overview/Content
This program is designed specifically for people supporting clients who receive nutrition through a PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy) tube or PEJ (Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy). The course develops the essential knowledge and skills required to manage different types of tubes, feeding regimes and care of the insertion site and PEG tube.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate care of the tube
- Demonstrate the care of the gastrostomy/jejunostomy site
- Explain how to identify and trouble shoot common problems
- Demonstrate safe giving of nutrients, fluids and medicines via a PEG or PEJ
Delivery Mode
3 hours face-to-face training and assessment
Qualification Issued
Tube Feeding (PEG and PEJ) for Support Workers: Face-to-Face Training and Assessment
Certificate Validity
1 year
More About This Course
We select our Premium Health trainers and assessors carefully. All are nurses or paramedics with appropriate qualifications, technical expertise and experience in the health care, emergency first aid and education sectors. This enables them to provide you with quality training which is grounded in experience and knowledge of the field.
Some of the topics include:
Some of the topics include:
- Understanding the reasons why a person may require a PEG/PEJ tube
- Discussing the types of nourishment tubes
- Recognising different feeding regimes
- Caring for the tube and gastrostomy/jejunostomy site
- Identifying and trouble shooting common problems
- Giving of nutrients, fluids and medicines via a PEG or PEJ
- Understanding the safe work practices and measures to be used in order to reduce the likelihood of injury
- Administering a feed through a simulated PEG tube