Exam 2: Nutrition Screening and Assessment

In the 1960s, the incidence of malnutrition was not noticed because little or no attention was given to nutritional health. The acronym for one of the surveys for monitoring nutritional health is NHANES, which stands for:

Between 1968 and 1970, the National Center for Health Statistics conducted the Ten State Survey.

Mary is a nutritionist who was recently hired to address the nutritional needs of the community. Her first action was to conduct a community needs assessment. This needs assessment will allow her to:

Which technique(s) could Mary use to properly assess the needs of the community?

A community nutritionist conducting a needs assessment may use the nine-step framework such as:

What are the ABCDs of nutrition assessment?

Kelly has been trying to lose weight recently since she found out that her BMI is 32.4. Measurements such as this, also known as anthropometric measurements, are concerned with:

Marcellinus, a nutritionist, was asked to list at least three factors that may influence the nutrition status of individuals or populations that he serves. These factors may include:

An outpatient dietitian such as Sue counsels clients after they have left the hospital. If Sue wants to obtain one of her client's body mass index, she may use all of the following except:

Which technique(s) could Mary use to properly assess the needs of the community?

An outpatient dietitian such as Debbie counsels clients after they have left the hospital. If Debbie wants to obtain her clients' food intake patterns, she may use all of the following tools except:

A nutritionist screening individuals who are at risk for poor nutritional status, such as low hemoglobin levels, will yield:

In the 1960s, the incidence of malnutrition was not noticed because little or no attention was given to nutritional health. The acronym for one of the surveys for monitoring nutritional health is NHANES, which stands for:

A community nutrition assessment needs includes all of the following except:

John is a dietitian at the local community health clinic, and one of his responsibilities is to conduct nutrition assessments of the clients. Which one of the following is not considered a technique used in conducting a nutrition assessment?

Danielle is a dietitian who constantly performs biochemical tests at her community health center. Some of the most common tests that she executes include all of the following except:

After Mary collected and analyzed the dietary intake of her clients, she compared the results using:

The National Center for Health Statistics percentiles for physical growth charts are standard for evaluating the physical growth of males and females from:

Marcellinus, a nutritionist, was asked to list at least three factors that may influence the nutrition status of individuals or populations that he serves. These factors may include:

A nutritionist could measure body fluids such as blood, urine, or feces as part of a physical examination test.