Description

ASPEN is pleased to announce a new training series focusing on enteral nutrition therapy safety. Enteral nutrition is an important therapeutic nutrition intervention used in adults, children and infants for a variety of indications. Appropriate use of this modality includes incorporating practices that maximize patient benefit while minimizing adverse events. In response to the recently developed ASPEN Enteral Nutrition Safety Consensus Recommendations, ASPEN has developed a training series to educate all members of the healthcare team who work with EN to optimize your knowledge base of safe EN.

Learning Objectives:

1. Outline rationale and methodology in developing the ASPEN Enteral Nutrition Safety Recommendations
2. List key recommendations and rationale for safe EN prescribing
3. Describe processes for communicating and reviewing the EN order

Speaker(s):

• Joseph Boullata, PharmD, Clinical Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences/Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
• Andrew Mays, PharmD, CNSC, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Nutrition Support, University of Mississippi Medical Center; Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS