Nutrition Care Process
Terminology
Nutritional Assessment
Malnutrition Screening Tools & Diagnosis
Measuring Nutrient Intake
100

This part of the Nutrition Care Process involves data collection, reviewing the data for key factors, and comparing that data against nutrition care criteria.

Nutrition Assessment

100

When writing PES statements, this section includes the cause of the nutrition problem.

Etiology

100

Measuring weight, height and body composition are examples of data collected in this assessment method.

Anthropometric

100

This assessment tool has been validated to accurately predict poor outcomes and longer length of hospital stay after surgery.

Subjective Global Assessment (SGA)

100

This dietary data-collection method uses a structured listing of individual foods or groups of foods that an individual consumes over a period of time.

Food-frequency questionnaire

200

This is the part of the Nutrition Care Process that determines the extent to which intervention goals are met.

Monitoring & evaluation

200

NHANES stands for:

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

200

This is the most useful population-level measure of overweight and obesity in adults.

Body mass index (BMI)

200

This is the most reliable indicator of poor nutritional status:

Weight loss

200

This is the most effective diet-assessment method for individuals who have literacy issues.

24-hour recall

300

The phrase “unintended weight loss” would be found in this part of the nutrition diagnostic statement.

Problem

300

This database contains standardized language that should be used when documenting in an electronic health record.

Electronic Nutrition Care Process Terminology (eNCPT)

300

Measuring blood nutrient concentrations, urinary metabolites, and blood lipid concentrations are examples of data collected in this assessment method.

Biochemical

300

Malnutrition in the context of social or environmental circumstances may be present in patients with this eating disorder.

Anorexia nervosa

300

List TWO limitations of the food diary.

Any TWO of the following: 

requires respondent literacy, high degree of cooperation, act of recording may alter diet, varying knowledge of portion sizes, low response rates in national surveys, labor intensive data entry and analysis

400

List the four steps of the Nutrition Care Process in order.

1. Nutrition Assessment

2. Nutrition Diagnosis, 

3. Nutrition Intervention

4. Nutrition Monitoring & Evaluation

400

The purpose of this type of study is to investigate factors that may cause a disease to develop in a particular group over time.

Cohort study

400

Sarcopenia is characterized by the loss of:

Muscle mass

400

This is the extent to which a nutritional screen gives negative results in those who are free of the disease or condition.

Specificity

400

List TWO strengths of the 24-hour dietary recall.

Any TWO of the following: 

relatively quick/easy to administer, inexpensive, low respondent burden, does not alter usual diet

500

Describe the criteria required for discharge from nutrition care services to be appropriate.

A nutrition problem is not present

OR current problems cannot be improved by supplementary nutrition care

500

This term is used to describe the proportion of the population that is susceptible to develop a disease over time.

Incidence

500

This is the gold standard for validating total energy intake.

Doubly labeled water

500

List FIVE of the six areas assessed in the AND/ASPEN Consensus Criteria for Diagnosing Malnutrition.

Weight loss, energy intake, body fat, muscle mass, fluid accumulation, and grip strength

500

This method is used to measure the amounts of major commodities that disappear from the food distribution system.

Food availability (or disappearance)

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