Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1.  Summarize the types of feeding tubes used in children

2. Demonstrate knowledge of the medical assistant role with patients that have feeding tubes

3. Summarize knowledge of feeding tube terminology

Faculty

Carrie Somppi BS, RN, CPN

Patricia Minchella RN

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.