SHOUT OUT TO ALL NURSES WORKING IN ENTERAL FEEDING ROLES:

We are Clinical Nurse Specialists in Enteral Nutrition with a focus on the management of gastrostomy and jejunostomy feeding tubes.

Do you feel like you are sometimes working alone advocating for your patients with enteral feeding tubes?

We have found that there is no network or established group of nurses in the enteral nutrition sub specialty and would like to develop one so that nurses working in this space have an opportunity to share resources and develop national guidelines to improve practice.

We are hoping to establish a sub group with NZgNC to:

• Support high quality care for those with enteral feeding

• To provide a network as a learning, advisory, sharing, supportive professional resource for clinicians using enteral feeding

• To promote and highlight the role and value of RNs and CNS working in the care of people who have enteral feeding

• Promote the development of nursing staff within enteral nutrition by facilitating access to educational resources

• Discuss difficult/complex case studies

• To standardise care and quality improvement

Please contact us via email if you are interested in joining this group:

Fiona.williams@waitematadhb.govt.nz

Hannah.Dunstan@cdhb.health.nz