Picture this: You’re working in private practice and get a referral for a home-based tube feed… HELP! Enter: our latest episode with Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian, Lina Breik, to teach you how to set your patients (and yourself!) up for success. Lina shares practical tips for bridging the gap between hospital and home-based tube feeding, and highlights how dietitians can empower their patients to play an active role in their feeding decisions so they can confidently manage tube feeding at home. Lina also covers the unique challenges of upper GI patients requiring jejunostomy feeding, and ways dietitians can proactively reduce their anxieties around such complex cases. ​
Hosted by Brooke Delfino
Biography
Lina Breik is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian with over a decade of clinical nutrition hospital experience across multiple hospitals in Victoria, Australia. As the the Founding Lead at Tube Dietitian, Lina’s current focus is to bridge the gap between hospital and home care for adults that live with home feeding tubes. Lina’s approach towards home tube feeding involves a humanised perspective that emphasises the social and emotional aspects of nutrition through a tube. Her dedication to this cause is evident in her ongoing pursuit of a PhD that investigates the challenges and experiences of adults living with feeding tubes. She has recently published a book called ‘Your Tube: a guide to nutrition through a feeding tube’ as an empowering guide for adults who live with a feeding tube.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why Lina is so passionate about hospital-to-home nutrition care​
- The unique challenges of tube feeding in complex upper GI cases​
- Common obstacles patients face when adapting to home tube feeding​
- How dietitians can help their patients positively see life after hospital with a ​feeding tube​
- The utmost importance of teamwork​
Additional resources
Connect with Lina at tubedietitian.com or on LinkedIn
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