Exam 1: Introduction to Nutritional Assessment

While the term epidemic is typically used to describe a marked increase in the number of cases of an infectious or communicable disease over a certain period of time, the term can appropriately be used to describe a marked increase in noncommunicable diseases or other adverse health conditions such as obesity.

The Nutrition Care Process is intended to help standardize the process of delivering nutrition-related care, but is not intended to standardize the actual nutrition care that different patients receive.

Nutrition diagnostic terms are divided into three __________.

In the Nutrition Care Process, the selection of the intervention is driven by

An example of a reference standard for food and nutrient intake against which an estimate of the patient's nutrient intake can be compared is the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Nutrition diagnostic terms that describe problems related to inadequate, excessive, or inappropriate food or nutrient consumption are part of the __________ domain.

The step in the Nutrition Care Process that involves objectively determining whether and to what extent the goals of the intervention have been met is known as

Nutritional assessment is a one-time, isolated event that occurs at the beginning of a patient's nutrition-related care.

The activities necessary to provide timely information about the contributions of food and nutrient consumption and nutritional status to the health of a population group or nation are known as __________.

Nutrition diagnostic terms that describe nutritional problems related to nutrition knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about food and nutrition, the physical environment, access to food, and food safety are part of the __________ domain.