Assessment
How do you calculate BMI
What is BMI= lbs x703 /(height inches) squared
A nurse calculates their patients BMI as 42kg/m(squared). What would the patient be diagnosed with?
What is obesity
An obese patient is seen by their PCP due to headaches over the past month. Their vital signs are T-98.6 RR18 BP 178/92 P 86. What health risk is the pt. experiencing secondary to obesity?
What is hypertension
Obese patient who has been given a strict diet of 1200-calories a day to aid in weight loss.
What is nutritional therapy
What is BMI of 40kg/m(squared) or BMI of 35kg/m(squared) with other co-morbidities (hypertension/diabetes/heart failure/sleep apnea)
Health risk increase when this is greater than 40 inches.
What is waist circumference
What is activity intolerance
Obese patient has increased fat around the neck, leading to snoring and hypoventilation which sleeping
What is sleep apnea
Obese patient on a weight loss journey puts together a plan to walk 30 minutes a day.
What is exercise
Laparoscope surgery involving limiting stomach size with an inflatable band placed placed around fundus of stomach.
What is adjustable gastric banding
People with fat in mostly their abdominal area
What is apple-shaped body
A nurse is caring for an obese patient who finds it hard to make it to the bathroom in time. This results in the patient being incontinent of both stool and urine. What is the primary nursing diagnosis?
What is risk for impaired skin integrity.
A digestive disease in which stomach acid or bile irritates the food pipe lining.
Therapy for obesity that is aimed around eliminating cues in the environment that trigger eating.
What is stimulus control
Bariatric surgery involving creating a small pouch and attaching it directly to the small intestine using a Y-shaped limb of the small bowel
What is hypertension, tachycardia and dysrhythmias.
The nurse is caring for a severely obese patient who is unable to walk to the bathroom independently. What is the primary nursing dx?
What is impaired physical mobility
Obese patient with A1C of 6.5% or higher on two two separate tests and a BG of 280.
What is type 2 diabetes
What are support groups
75% of the stomach is removed
What is gastric sleeve
Assessing patients family history of obesity, medications, eating patterns, surgeries, exercise pattern and willingness to change.
What is subjective data.
The nurse is caring for an obese patient that states "I can't stand the way I look". What is the priority nursing diagnosis?
What is disturbed body image.
A group of metabolic risk factors that increase a person's chance of developing CVD, stroke, and diabetes.
What is metabolic syndrome
Phentermine is an example of what?
Bariatric surgery where a fluid filled sack takes up stomach space
What is intragastric balloons