[The management for safety on Home Parenteral Nutrition(HPN)].

Nutrition support team(NST)continuously leads a safe and effective home nutritional management for a reliable operation. With regard to home parenteral nutrition(HPN), we provided some pamphlets on HPN for the patient and family and nurses. The utilization of the pamphlets was two folds: (1) a teaching instruction can be unified for the patient and family and nurses, (2) to eliminate the gap among nurses for instructional procedures.

[An awareness survey of home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in a local medical society].

Since we initiated home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in 1989 at our hospital, we have experienced a total of 96-patient cases. However, most of the patients were not accepted by the local medical society because of their own administration related problems. In the recent movement for the promotion of home medical care, a monthly joint study meeting between the NST and the local medical society was initiated in February 2003.