Welcome to the Nourish Clinical Insights Blog, a resource for clinicians. With help from our key contributor, Dr. Mark DeLegge, we will be posting abstracts of relevant medical articles as well as other home nutrition content, and we look forward to your input. As an industry leader in home nutrition support, we strive continuously to enhance patient care and professional growth by advancing the knowledge, skills and understanding of TPN and tube feeding therapies. Our goal is that this blog will help further these efforts and be a forum for ideas about nutrition support. We hope you enjoy it and we encourage you to participate!

 

Nov 6, 2009

Small Steps to Big Steps - Enjoying the Holidays

On November 17, 2009 - Join other HPEN consumers for a free teleconference on making the most of the holiday season! Holidays can be particularly challenging for TPN and tube feeding consumers. Our guest speaker, Faye Clements, RN will speak on social and emotional coping skills for the holidays and be available to answer your questions.

The call is November 17 at 7pm Eastern. Call in information is available on our consumer events page.

We have also included excerpts from recent calls in our free quarterly HPEN consumer magazine Celebrate Life. Archive copies can be found on WeNourish.com, or if you would like to receive a printed copy, you can subscribe to Celebrate Life online.

-Your Nourish Nutrition Support Team

Jul 21, 2009

Oral Rehydration Discussion

Don't miss our monthly consumer conference call today at 7pm Eastern - This evening's topic is Good Hydration Knows No Season - Facts and tips on staying hydrated through the summer and beyond. Our featured speakers are Ezra Steiger, MD from the Cleveland Clinic, and Carol Ireton-Jones, PhD, RD. Call in information is available at www.wenourish.com/consumers/events.aspx.

-Your Nourish Nutrition Support Team

Jul 3, 2009

Oley 2009

The Nourish Nutrition Support team enjoyed seeing everyone at this year's Oley Conference in St. Pete's beach, Florida! The Oley Foundation is a tremendous resource for parenteral and enteral nutrition consumers and Coram was proud to continue our support as a Gold Medallion partner, to provide local infusion emergency services for conference attendees, and to offer key educational sessions throughout the conference. You can learn more about the Oley Foundation on our website, WeNourish.com, or by visiting Oley.org.

- Your Nourish Nutrition Support Team

Feb 5, 2009

Clinical Nutrition Week 2009 - A Success!

We enjoyed seeing everyone in New Orleans at CNW09! We are proud to have been a sponsor of both the 2009 Conference the Research Workshop (Micronutrients in Parenteral Nutrition) this year. Many thanks to those of you who stopped by our booth, attended our clinical poster presentations (now posted online), or enjoyed one of our many roundtable discussions. The conference is a wonderful resource for anyone committed to patient safety and the continued study and advancement of nutrition support therapy - if you weren't able to attend this year's conference, we encourage you to attend CNW10!

-Your Nourish Nutrition Support Team

Jan 13, 2009

Clinical Nutrition Week

If you are in New Orleans for ASPEN's upcoming Clinical Nutrition Week (Feb 1-4), please be sure to come by and visit us at booth #602. Many of our clinical nutrition staff members will be presenting clinical case studies and conducting round table discussions throughout the event. We've made last years' case studies available for download, and will post the new studies immediately after the conference. We look forward to seeing you there!

-Your Nourish Nutrition Support Team