Patient Teaching
Explain that the diet is for short-term use only, helps with gastrointestinal recovery, and lacks adequate nutrition for long-term use.
What is the BRAT diet?
This diet excludes wheat, barley, rye, and triticale to prevent autoimmune reactions.
What is Celiac/gluten free
These products may be high in potassium so use in kidney disease is important to monitor.
What are salt substitutes?
This is often the first dietary phase after surgery. It allows items such as broths, tea, and some juices.
What is a clear liquid diet?
This diet separates meat and dairy.
What is kosher diet, following Jewish dietary laws?
This is to teach a patient with diabetes how to manage their condition with their diet.
Why should nurses provide tools like carb-counting charts, explain portion sizes, and encourage using mobile apps to monitor daily intake?
This diet limits sodium potassium, and phosphorus while including lean proteins and low-sodium foods to support kidney function.
What is the Renal Diet?
These are important nursing considerations for patients with an NG tube.
Check tube placement, ensure the patient tolerates feedings without GI upset, monitor hydration status, and assess for signs of infection or aspiration?
After this type of surgery, the patient must eat high-protein small meals, hydration between meals, and avoid high-fat/sugary foods.
What is Bariatric Surgery Recovery?
Food permissible under Islamic law, excluding pork, alcohol, improperly slaughtered animals, and blood.
What is halal food?
These teaching points are important for a patient starting a high-calorie/high-protein diet.
Emphasize incorporating nutrient-dense foods, frequent meals/snacks, and possibly supplementing with high-protein shakes if needed.
This diet avoids all animal products.
What is a vegan diet?
This is a longterm feeding tube option.
What is a PEG tube?
These are the types of vitamins an individual with Cystic Fibrosis should take.
What are the fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) due to impaired digestion?
Catholics and some other Christian branches abstain from meat on Fridays and practice fasting on specific days during this time of the year.
What is lent?
The nurse should educate immunocompromised patients to avoid these foods.
Uncooked/undercooked meats, vegetables, and fruits. Products that are unpasteurized, soft cheeses, and preprepared items.
This diet limits the number of simple sugars and focuses on promotion of complex carbs.
What is a carb controlled diabetic diet (CCDD)?
What is parenteral nutrition?
What is the purpose of a fluid restriction?
How to manage fluid retention and prevent complications like swelling and high BP in kidney or cardiac disease?
Some individuals who follow islam may abstain from eating or drinking anything between sunrise and sunset during this time of year.
What is Ramadan?