Nutrition
Intense fear of becoming fat and restriction of food intake resulting in extreme low weight is known as.
What is Anorexia Nervosa
Stage of behavioral change marked by adopting new behavior and discontinuing old behaviors.
What is the Action Stage?
The most calorie dense nutrient with 9 kcal/g composed of triglycerides and fatty acids.
What are Fats (Lipids)?
This complication that affects immobile patients can be prevented by interventions such as placement of SCDs or Lovenox injections.
What are blood clots?
A patient with a new nasogastric tube now has an order for enteral tube feedings. Before initiating the feeding the nurse must verify this diagnostic/ procedure has been completed.
What is an abdominal x-ray?
This calculation measures weight corrected for height and is written as X= kg/ m2 .
What is Body mass Index (BMI)?
This type of illness typically includes a rapid onset of symptoms that are less than 6 months and reversible.
What is Acute Illness?
These types of vitamins (A, D, E and K) are typically stored for longer periods of time.
What are fat soluble vitamins?
In addition to medications for back pain, requesting a massage for your patient is an example of this type of therapy.
What is Complementary Therapy?
A tube surgically implanted into the stomach for enteral feeding is called.
What is a Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube?
Coming in with 4kcal/g this diet supplied macronutrient is the main source of fuel for the body.
What is/ are carbohydrate/s?
Health promotion for this group include assessment & education for family transitions, cognitive and mobility changes.
Who are older adults?
A deficit of these two minerals leads to Osteoporosis.
What are calcium and vitamin D?
A stroke patient has failed the dysphagia screening. The nurse understands an evaluation must be completed by this person before allowing them to consume anything by mouth.
Who is Speech Therapy?
This type of parenteral nutrition is hypertonic and requires administration through central venous access only.
What is Total Parenteral Nutrition?
The FDA required all manufacturers of packaged food to provide this.
What is a nutrition label?
Fixed income, lack of community services, firmly held beliefs are examples of why patients are__________ to treatments and medications.
What is Non-adherent?
This micronutrient, required by every cell in the body, is especially important for cardiac and skeletal muscle function.
What is Potassium?
Offering smaller meals, providing oral hygiene and keeping a room free of odors are all ways to do this.
What is Improve appetite?
This lower-glucose type of nutrition can be provided when patient's have non-functioning GI systems.
What is Peripheral Parenteral Nutrition?
Indicators of this include muscle weakness, fatigue, anorexia, dry skin, tachycardia, spoon-shaped nails.
What is malnutrition?
This hierarchy model states self-actualization and the achievement of health is based on the amount of their needs that are met.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Model?
This micronutrient is required for blood clotting and can interfere with medications like warfarin.
What is Vitamin K?
Not speaking to others while in the "red zone" of the pyxis, verifying drug name, dose, delivery are all forms of this time of safety.
What is medication safety?
Aspiration precautions for patients receiving intermittent tube feeds include
What are Patient positioned at 30-45 degrees, feeding delivered gradually over 30-45 minutes, keep patient at 30-45 for at least 30 minutes past end of feeding.