The Clinical Pharmacy Unit in October 6 University Hospital Gives a Lecture For The Nursing Teams About The Different Types Of Parenteral And Enteral Nutritional Products And Solutions
In accordance to the vital role of the clinical pharmacy team in the October 6 university hospital, which is teaching and training the medical teams for a better medical service for patients, the clinical pharmacy unit organized a lecture about the different types of the parenteral and enteral nutritional products and the right methods of their administration. This lecture is one among several lectures and workshops the unit began to organize for the nursing teams, among the ongoing events of developing the health care in the hospital. The lecture was under the sponsorship of Professor Dr. Mohamoud Kohil, the dean of the faculty of pharmacy, and Professor Dr. Aly Hegazy the hospital general manager.
The lecture adopted several basic concepts of the nursing team duties in the hospital:
1. The introduction of all types of tubing, parenteral and enteral nutrition.
2. Preparing and administering nutritional products given by intubation, and explaining the difference between open and closed aseptic systems.
3. The introduction to all types of parenteral nutrition and its pharmaceutical products (solutions) of amino acids, fats and carbohydrates and methods of their administration including time of parenteral dripping for each solution and all necessary precautions needed to be followed by the nursing teams.
4. Methods of dilution and mixing of vitamins and minerals’ ampoules with the parenteral solution.
5. Mixing the parenteral products with each other before administration.
Lecture goals:
The lecture aimed to improve the health care given to patients in the hospital and to decrease medical errors due to nutritional solutions and products’ administration.
The lecture was given in the clinical pharmacy unit on Thursday the 24th of September 2020 in the presence of the nursing administration manager, nursing supervisors in the intensive care units and in the different departments of the hospital and in the presence of Professor Dr. Samir Osman, vice dean of the faculty of pharmacy for the environmental affairs and community service.
Dr. Ahmed Essam, the clinical pharmacy unit supervisor lectured the nursing teams.
Handouts were distributed among the attendees which contained the scientific content of the lecture.
A questionnaire was given to the attendees to know their extent of satisfaction concern about the workshop and the lecture given. Alsothis was given to state their opinions about their trainers and to express any suggestions for improving the workshop.
20 nurses (males and females) attended the lecture and workshop from the different departments October 6 university hospital.