Enfermería y educación para la salud en nutrición enteral domiciliaria.

  1. Martínez Martínez, M.I. 1
  2. Segura López, G. 1
  3. Cantero González, M.L. 1
  4. Molino Contreras, J.L. 1
  5. Cayuela Fuentes, P. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Journal:
Enfermería global: revista electrónica trimestral de enfermería

ISSN: 1695-6141

Year of publication: 2006

Volume: 5

Issue: 1

Type: Article

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Abstract

Home enteral nutrition (HEN) allows, besides guaranteeing a correct nutricional treatment, improving patient autonomy and wellbeing along with a reduction of the expenditure on hospitalization. Due to the characteristics of this treatment, which is administered at home, Health Education becomes of high importance: the patient, their family and/or caregivers need to learn theoretical and practical aspects of this procedure. For this reason, one of the nursing tasks could be not only the identification and treatment of its complications, but also being a patient/family educator.