Exam 13: Nutrition Care and Assessment

Which of the following is most valuable for evaluating the degree of nutrition risk associated with acute illness?

To ensure that a planned intervention is realistic, the dietitian takes into account the client's food habits, lifestyle, and other personal factors.

Which of the following is not one of the nurse's roles in nutrition care of a patient?

The study of the effects of diet on gene expression is called:

Matching

In people who are ill, significant weight loss may be masked by:

All of the following standardized conditions should be used when making repeated weight measures on adults except:

A child's height is measured in the standing position once she or he reaches the age of:

The 24-hour recall provides accurate and complete data for assessing an individual's diet.

A written account of foods and beverages consumed by a client over several days is called a nutrition diagnosis.

What lab value responds to both PEM and iron status?

Which of the following nursing diagnoses has nutritional implications?

If the nurse is unable to obtain a patient's weight and the patient states her weight, the nurse understands that:

When direct observations are used to generate an estimate of a client's current food intake, the procedure is called a:

An elderly male is admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of malnutrition three months after his wife died.The nurse recognizes that this is most likely due to which criteria for identifying malnutrition risk?

The medical history provides information about:

What is Mr.Wilson's ideal body weight?

Obtaining an accurate account of a person's usual food intake is dependent upon all of the following but:

The nurse recognizes that diseases involving the esophagus may have nutritional implications due to difficulty swallowing, and it will be necessary to:

The most likely cause of Mr.Wilson's weight loss is: