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The nurse makes nutrition a focus in the care plan. Where does nutrition play the most important role?
-Health maintenance
What has replaced the USDA's recommendation Dietary Allowance (RDA)
- Dietary Reference Intake (DRI)
When reviewing a patient's dietary intake, the nurse recommends that added sugar consumption be reduced to be recommended daily level. What is this level?
- No more than 8% of total daily kilocalories
What is the term for stored fat that insulates the body and serves as a cushion to protect organs?
- Adipose tissue
The nurse is providing information about high cholesterol levels. What is the rationale for avoiding saturated fats?
- They increase blood cholesterol levels
When discussing the digestion and metabolism of fat the nurse tells the patient who has a history of cholecystitis and who is on a low fat diet that fat must be emulsified to be digested. What is the substance necessary for emulsification?
Bile
The body used 20 amino acids that are important to metabolism but only 9 must be obtained from protein in diet. What are these proteins considered?
Essential
The nurse is educating a patient on a vegan diet. What supplement will the nurse encourage this patient to take to avoid a deficiency?
B12 (cyanocobalamin)
The nurse explains that a patient with a heart problem should follow a decreased sodium diet. This diet will help to reduce the risk of:
-MI/CHF
The home health nurse is caring for a patient who has undergone removal of a part of the stomach. For what should the nurse carefully assess the patient?
- Pernicious anemia
To simplify food values, the measurement of energy obtained by food is defined as the ________.
- Kilocalorie
Fat-soluble vitamins include vitamins
-A, D, E, K
A nurse is assessing a client who is exhibiting the signs and symptoms of anemia, convulsions, dermatitis, confusion, and depression. Which vitamin deficiency should she suspect?
- Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
A nurse is caring for a client with high cholesterol. The physician has ordered a megadose of niacin. Which of the following side effects of niacin should the nurse monitor in the client?
- Abnormal liver function and flushing
The severe deficiency of which vitamin can cause BeriBeri?
- B1 (Thiamine)
Pellagra is a disease in which the mucous membranes of the mouth and digestive tract become red and inflamed and lesions appear on the skin. What vitamin problem is this disease linked to?
- B3 (Niacin) deficiency
New research has shown that individuals with low vitamin D level tend to have which of the following?
- Decaying teeth
Which of the following diseases are associated with protein deficiency?
- Marasmus & Kwashiorkor
A diet for a patient with Iron-deficiency in which vitamin?
- Liver
Scurvy is related to a deficiency in which vitamin?
- Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
What is the term for softening of the bone?
Osteomalacia
A patient has just been started on the anticoagulant (blood thinner) medication, Warfarin (Coumadin). The nurse is aware she must provide diet instruction to this patient which would consist of what is called a "Coumadin Diet". What type of foods should the nurse teach the patient to avoid due to the high content of Vitamin K?
- green leafy vegetables
Organic substances of a fatty nature that are insoluble in water and necessary for good health are:
- Lipids
Vitamin K can be also be known as:
- Aquamephyton
The stored form of carbohydrates (animal starch) is called:
- glycogen