Understanding the Role of Parenteral Nutrition - Nursing from Hospital to Home
Wednesday 18 May 2022 @ 12:00 - 12:45
The British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA) offered a live three-part webinar series introducing parenteral nutrition to nurses in May 2022. The series consists of three 45-minute live sessions delivered over a period of three weeks and aims to provide a greater understanding of parenteral nutrition and the nursing role from diagnosis to hospital care and home.
Session 1 Wednesday 18 May 12 – 12:45 pm
The first session of this webinar series provides an overview of the different routes of feeding and product types used, highlights where parenteral nutrition sits within the nutrition support continuum, explores the indications for parenteral nutrition and introduces a case study. This session ends with a Q&A.
Session 2 Wednesday 25 May 12 – 12:45 pm
The second session of this webinar series discusses the management and monitoring of patients on parenteral nutrition in hospital, looks at assessing patients in hospital for home PN, explains the licensing and preparation of PN, and applies learnings to the case study introduced in the first session. This session ends with a Q&A.
*Update August 2023: Slide 24 - ANNT should read ANTT
Session 3 Wednesday 8 June 12 – 12:45 pm
The final session of this webinar series provided an overview of home parenteral nutrition, described the process of discharge from hospital to home, outlined the role of the homecare nurse, discussed monitoring patients on PN at home including potential complications and built on the case study with the session’s learnings.
*Update August 2023: Slide 11 - there are now 5 companies discharging centres can use to provide their HPN service