Exam 60: Care of Patients with Malnutrition: Undernutrition and Obesity

A client is awaiting bariatric surgery in the morning.What action by the nurse is most important?

A client has been prescribed lorcaserin (Belviq).What teaching is most appropriate?

A client's small-bore feeding tube has become occluded after the nurse administered medications.What actions by the nurse are best? (Select all that apply.)

A client is receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN).What action by the nurse is most important?

A nurse is caring for a client receiving enteral feedings through a Dobhoff tube.What action by the nurse is best to prevent hyperosmolarity?

A client is receiving continuous tube feeding at 70 mL/hr.When the bag is empty,how much formula does the nurse add? (Record your answer using a whole number.)_____ mL

A client having a tube feeding begins vomiting.What action by the nurse is most appropriate?

A client tells the nurse about losing weight and regaining it multiple times.Besides eating and exercising habits,for what additional data should the nurse assess as the priority?

A nursing student is studying nutritional problems and learns that kwashiorkor is distinguished from marasmus with which finding?