Exam 6: Nutritional Support

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?

Risks of total parenteral nutrition include: (Select all that apply.)

In trauma patients,enteral nutrition via nasogastric tube feedings into the small bowel is best initiated within what time frame following the injury?

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:

In evaluating a patient's nutrition,the nurse would monitor which blood test as the most sensitive indicator of protein synthesis and catabolism?

Which statement(s)about total parenteral nutrition is (are)true? (Select all that apply.)

A patient is having complications from abdominal surgery and remains NPO.Because enteral tube feedings are not possible,the decision is to initiate parenteral feedings.What are the major complications for this therapy?

Objective data designating that the nutrition goals are not being met include:

A patient with a history of emphysema,diabetes,and hyperlipidemia is in the critical care unit on a ventilator.The nutrition assessment notes that the patient has a protein and vitamin deficiency and is underweight.Which formula for nutritional assessment is most appropriate?

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

An important nutritional consideration in the elderly population is:

The best nursing approach to prevent feeding tube obstruction is:

Which intervention(s)is (are)critical during intravenous lipid administration? (Select all that apply).

The patient is to start parenteral nutrition.The nurse knows to prepare which site for catheter insertion?

Which of the following statements is true about insulin and parenteral nutrition? (Select all that apply.)

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

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

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?

Which statement is true about normal function of the gastrointestinal (GI)tract?