Nutrition Care Process
This is done prior to a nutrition assessment and can be completed by an NTDR.
What is a nutrition screening?
Chewing/swallowing difficulties, impaired nutrient utilization, and unintended weight loss may all necessitate this type of nutrition support.
What is Enteral Nutrition?
These islet cells are responsible for producing insulin.
This may be an appropriate intervention for someone with a progressive neurological disease who experiences tremors or difficulty with utensils.
What are finger foods?
This plant protein may be considered a good source of dietary calcium.
What is Edamame/Tofu?
Information gathered from a verifiable source, also known as a patient's "signs".
What is objective information?
ASPEN guidelines recommend the initiation of nutrition support within this time frame.
What is 24-48 hours?
Limitations in these two items are the primary recommendations for portal hypertension.
What are sodium and fluids?
Following a stroke, a person may experience this difficulty in swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
This hormone is produced during hypocalcemia to stimulate calcium release from the bone while also inhibiting the activity of osteoblasts.
What is the parathyroid hormone?
"Chewing/swallowing difficulty" falls under this nutrition diagnosis domain.
This type of feeding may be indicate when a patient is unable to meet their needs orally or through EN and has impaired GI tract motility.
What is PN?
These are the protein recommendations for a person with hepatic encephalopathy.
1.2-1.5 g/kg
A high fat, very low carbohydrate diet used in the treatment of epilepsy.
What is the ketogenic diet?
This disease, caused by inadequate vitamin D, is characterized by the softening of bone material in adults.
What is osteomalacia?
When providing parenteral nutrition, this is the general prescription for how many mg/kg/mn of dextrose should be provided.
What is 3-5?
After a cholecystectomy, these types of vitamins may become deficient.
What are fat soluble vitamins?
This part of a neuron forms a protective membrane around the cell.
What is the the myelin sheath?
These cells in the bones secrete HCl to dissolve minerals of the bone.
Osteoclasts
This is the final step of the Nutrition Care Process.
A person can discontinue their enteral nutrition when they are able to consume this percent of calories orally.
What is 60%
Serum levels of this enzyme may be at least three times the normal range in acute pancreatitis.
This is a large, slow acting substance that assists with communication between neurons.
What is a neuropeptide?
This part of bone tissue is dense, with no open spaces.