Exam 6: Nutritional Support

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A patient is being ventilated and has been started on enteral feedings with a nasogastric small-bore feeding tube.What is the primary reason the nurse must frequently assess tube placement?

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A patient with acute pancreatitis is started on parenteral nutrition.The student nurse listed possible interventions for this patient.Which intervention needs correction before finalizing the plan of care?

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Question 22

Approximately 5 days after starting tube feedings,a patient develops extreme diarrhea.A stool specimen is collected to check for which possible cause?

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Question 23

Select the physiological reasoning behind enteral therapy as the preferred source of nutritional therapy.

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Question 24

A patient is being fed through a nasogastric tube placed in his stomach.The nurse would carry out which intervention to minimize aspiration risk?

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Question 25

The nurse identifies which patient at greatest risk for malabsorption of protein?

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Question 26

In addition to residual stomach volume,what other evidence suggests feeding intolerance?

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Question 27

An important nutritional consideration in the elderly population is

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Question 28

Risks of total parenteral nutrition include:

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Question 29

A patient,who has a tube feeding,requires a chest x-ray study for evaluation of a cough.To reduce the risk of aspiration,the nurse:

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A patient is being ventilated and has been started on enteral feedings with a nasogastric small-bore feeding tube.What is the primary reason the nurse must frequently assess tube placement?

A patient with acute pancreatitis is started on parenteral nutrition.The student nurse listed possible interventions for this patient.Which intervention needs correction before finalizing the plan of care?

Approximately 5 days after starting tube feedings,a patient develops extreme diarrhea.A stool specimen is collected to check for which possible cause?

Select the physiological reasoning behind enteral therapy as the preferred source of nutritional therapy.

A patient is being fed through a nasogastric tube placed in his stomach.The nurse would carry out which intervention to minimize aspiration risk?

The nurse identifies which patient at greatest risk for malabsorption of protein?

In addition to residual stomach volume,what other evidence suggests feeding intolerance?

An important nutritional consideration in the elderly population is

Risks of total parenteral nutrition include:

A patient,who has a tube feeding,requires a chest x-ray study for evaluation of a cough.To reduce the risk of aspiration,the nurse:

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