Enteral & Parenteral Feeding
This is the most accurate method used to confirm the initial placement of a new nasal or orogastric feeding tube.
What is X-ray (KUB)?
This diet for hypertension is high in potassium and calcium but low in sodium.
This diet consists of foods that have no residue and are liquid at room temperature, such as water or apple juice.
What is a clear liquid diet?
What BMI is considered obese?
What is 30 or greater?
This vitamin facilitates the absorption of iron.
What is Vitamin C?
This hypertonic solution contains more than 10% dextrose and must be administered exclusively through a central line.
What is Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)?
To treat a conscious patient with hypoglycemia, a nurse should provide 15 grams of carbohydrates and repeat the blood glucose check after this many minutes.
What is 15 minutes?
Name three manifestations of dysphasia.
What is drooling, pocketing food, choking, or gagging?
A measure of plasma proteins that reflects the nutritional condition of a client experiencing anorexia and malnutrition over an extended period of time.
What is Vitamin K?
This hallmark electrolyte imbalance occurs when a body shifts from starvation mode to anabolic metabolism during nutritional replenishment.
What is hypophosphatemia (Refeeding Syndrome)?
Avoid this specific herb because it relaxes the lower esophageal sphincter in GERD.
What is peppermint?
This is a regular diet that is modified in texture. Indications include limited chewing ability, such as patients that are endentulous.
What is mechanical soft diet?
A patient has abdominal obesity, elevated blood glucose, and elevated triglycerides. What condition does this most likely represent?
What is metabolic syndrome?
Required for hemoglobin and amino acid synthesis, new cell synthesis, and the prevention of neural tube defects in utero.
What is folic acid?
This is one of the most common complications of TPN.
What is hyperglycemia?
While patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) are typically placed on a strict fluid restriction to prevent volume overload, a patient in the "diuretic phase" of this condition may be prescribed a diet that increases fluid intake to prevent dehydration.
What is acute kidney injury (AKI)?
You should not give a patient on a liquid diet red gelatin, cranberry juice, or other red liquids when he or she has this potential diagnosis.
What is a suspected gastrointestinal bleed (specifically an upper GI bleed)?
This occurs when clients are malnourished and carbohydrates are reintroduced to the diet.
What is potassium?
When is enteral feeding contraindicated?
What is a nonfunctional GI tract (paralytic ileus or intestinal obstruction)?
Client education for this disease includes: avoid coffee, alcohol, caffeine, aspirin and other NSAIDs, cigarettes, black pepper, and spicy food.
What is peptic ulcer disease?
What is cholecystitis?
A client with a BMI > 40 and no complications for obesity is a candidate for this.
What is bariatric surgery?
Torsades de Pointes is a lethal arrhythmia associated with this deficiency.
What is hypomagnesemia?