Diets
This diet is used for patients without restrictions. Balanced meal plan that supplies 2,000 kcal per day. May include vegetarian and ethnic options.
What is a Regular Diet
The preferred method of feeding a patient who has functional intestinal tract but needs nutritional support through liquid nutrition.
What is enteral nutrition (tube feeding)?
This type of nutritional support provide a constant flow of formula and an even distribution of nutrition throughout the day. Continuous infusions are usually administered via small-bore NG, NJ, PEG, or PEJ tubes, or G-buttons, to patients in debilitated states who require intensive nutritional support.
What is continuous feedings?
Scrambled eggs
What is protein?
This lab indicates the amount of fuel for the cells of the body.
What is blood glucose?
A patient is said to have this diet if they cannot have any food or fluid to mouth.
What is NPO?
An UAP can retrieve weights, height and intake and output, and collect nutritional history, but cannot perform this function?
This type of nutritional formula has a potential protective effect for multiple disease states, including diverticulosis, colon cancer, diabetes, and heart disease for patients in long-term care or need enteral feedings for a long time.
What is fiber-containing formulas?
I say butter.
What is a lipid?
This lab represents a substance formed in the liver after protein metabolism. Elevation can indicate impaired kidney function, dehydration, excessive protein breakdown, or excess dietary protein intake.
What is Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN).
This diet contains fluids in a clear liquid diet plus any food items that are liquid at room temperature such as soups, milk, milk shakes, puddings, custards, juices, some hot cereal, and yogurt.
What is a full liquid diet?
What is cold?
Extra protein and vitamin C are nutrient needed for illness.
What is wound healing?
I say carrots.
Impaired levels of this lab indicate impaired kidney function or loss of muscle mass.
What is creatinine?
What is a diet preferred for chewing difficulties. Includes a full liquid diet along with soft vegetables and fruits; chopped, ground, or shredded meat; breads; pastries; eggs; and cheese.
What is a Mechanical Soft diet?
A federal program which aims to improve the health of low-income elderly persons 60 years and above.
What is Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)?
Meats, eggs, spinach, seafood, broccoli, peas, bran, enriched breads, fortified cereals supply a high amount of which nutrient?
What is iron?
I say bacon.
What is a lipid and protein.
Levels of this fluctuate daily; considered a better marker of acute change than albumin.
What is prealbumin?
This is a diet used for those with elevated cholesterol or triglycerides.
What is a Fat-restricted diet?
Nutritional support which completely bypasses the effects of first pass metabolism.
What is parenteral nutrition?
Which nutrient functions to aids thyroid hormone secretion, maintains normal basal metabolic rate, activates enzymes for carbohydrate and protein metabolism, nerve and muscle function, cardiac function.
What is Magnesium (Mg)?
I say almonds.
This lab is a simple protein. Normal is 2.3-3.4g/dL.
What is globulin?