Exam 6: Nutritional Support

A patient is receiving enteral tube feedings and has developed drug-nutrient interactions.The nurse recognizes which drug as having the potential for causing drug-nutrient reactions?

Patients experiencing severe physiological stress increase their nutritional requirements to:

A patient who is receiving continuous enteral feedings has just vomited 250 mL of milky green fluid.This is a concern because this most likely demonstrates that the patient has:

The correct order of actions for a patient starting enteral nutrition with a feeding tube is: _______________,_______________,_______________,_______________,_______________.(Put a comma and space between each solve choice.) A)Initiate tube feeding. B)Insert feeding tube. C)Flush tube to verify patency. D)Obtain chest radiograph. E)Assess residuals.

A patient is receiving enteral feedings and has just vomited 250 mL of milky green liquid.The nurse holds the tube feeding,which had been infusing at 100 mL/hr.The nurse knows that the next action should be:

A patient has been admitted to the critical care unit after a stroke.After "failing" a swallow study,the patient is placed on enteral feedings.Following placement of a nasogastric tube for tube feeding,what is the next critical step?

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?

Calorie-dense feedings: (Select all that apply.)

Malnutrition contributes to infection risk by:

A patient's feeding tube has been successfully placed in the small intestine with continuous flow tube feeding.The nurse knows that this approach was chosen because: