This customizable document, Enteral Nutrition Products, is taken from MCN Healthcare's Nutritional Services Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry's leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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	POLICY: The Pharmacy Department shall supply patients with liquid nutritional supplements and substitutes as ordered by the physician. These may be bolus supplementation or continuous infusion. The Registered Dietitian shall see patients for whom enteral nutrition is ordered within three 3 days. PROCEDURE: The physician will order enteral nutrition for individual patients. For continuous infusion enteral nutrition, the Pharmacy Department will encode orders for enteral nutrition into the medication profile. Labeling and batch production will be performed as with IV admixture. ...
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	...is required. The following shall be minimized if possible: Dilution of standard concentration formulae. If lower osmolality is required either change the formula or reduce the rate of infusion. Addition of drugs or adjunct nutrients to standard formulae. Adjuncts shall be administered by stopping the infusion, flushing with water, administration of drug nutrients and reflush with water. Then restart the enteral infusion. Opening closed-system containers. This includes the...