FREE: The Enteral Nutrition Action Plan, A Low Health Literacy Self-Management Tool

Description

Presentation Summary

Clinical action plans have the potential to improve disease-related self-management confidence, increase pharmacotherapy adherence, and enhance guideline-concordant care. These clinical decision support tools are safe, inexpensive, and represent an advancement in the high-value care model in pediatric medicine.

This Enteral Nutrition Action Plan is a multifaceted tool designed to be used with infants and children with pediatric feeding disorder, poor growth, failure to thrive, or requiring tube feeds. The plan incorporates low health literacy elements like pictograms and automation to reinforce best practices at home.

The goal of this tool is to demonstrate a universal precautions approach to enhance knowledge transfer from medical teams to families managing children with pediatric feeding disorder and complex nutritional needs.

Speaker

Patrick Reeves is a member of the Department of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University. He currently works in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Brooke Army Medical Center. Dr. Reeves’ research interests include the development of point-of-care clinical action plans and tools which provide safer, faster, more standardized clinical care for children with chronic medical diseases.