Exam 30: Oral Nutrition

A nurse's role includes performing ___________________to assess a patient's risk status for malnutrition,assessing and assisting an adult patient with feeding,and identifying patients at risk for aspiration during oral feeding.

What is an appropriate technique for the nurse to use to prevent aspiration when assisting a patient with meals?

Which of the following is a sign of vitamin C deficiency?

______________ are measures of height; weight; head,arm,and muscle circumferences; and skinfold thickness.

The nurse performs nutritional screening for which of the following reasons? (Select all that apply.)

_______________ is useful for monitoring short-term changes in visceral protein.It has a short half-life of 2 days.

A patient in a health care facility is placed on a mechanical soft diet.Which of the following foods may the patient choose to eat?

A patient is admitted to the hospital evaluation for sleep apnea.The nurse calculates his body mass index (BMI)at 42 kg/m².What does this indicate about the patient's weight?

_____________ is the potential to become malnourished because of primary factors such as inadequate intake,or secondary such as disease.

The nurse is caring for a patient who is believed to be suffering from malnutrition.The nurse calculates that the patient's body mass index (BMI)is 16.4 kg/m².What does this indicate about the patient's weight?

The patient is placed on a clear liquid diet.Which of the following foods may the patient select?

Biochemical indices help the clinician to determine the effects of nutritional factors or of medical conditions on the health status of patients.No single test is available for evaluating short-term response to medical nutritional therapy.Laboratory tests conducted over time will give more accurate information than a single test.Which of the following are the most important biochemical measures? (Select all that apply.)

_________________ diets include modifications in the number or size of meals served or the amounts of specific nutrients,such as six small feedings or.

The nurse is caring for an infant who is 3 months old and is being bottle fed human milk.Will the nurse need to provide the infant with any additional bottles?

The nurse is caring for a patient diagnosed with severe dehydration.She notes that the patient's albumin level is 4.0.What may this indicate?

What must the nurse do before assisting the patient with feeding?

The nurse is caring for a patient who is 6 foot 2 inches tall and weighs 250 pounds.What is the patient's body mass index (BMI)?

The national dysphagia diet comprises which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is caring for a female patient who is 5 feet 2 inches and weighs 154 pounds.What is the ideal body weight (IBW)for this patient?

Which of the following are signs of iron (Fe²⁺)deficiency? (Select all that apply.)