Chapter 6 - Nutrition

Question 1

_____ is a pleasant sensation involving the individual’s desire to for food and fluids

Answer 1

Appetite.

Question 2

_____ is a physiological aroused sensation related to the body’s need for food.

Answer 2

Hunger

Question 3

Factors in maintaining adequate nutrition are?

Answer 3

1. Effective functioning of GI system to ingest & absorb nutrients.
2. Availability/palatability of nutritional substances
3. Metabolic energy, growth, and repair needs
4. Psychosocial factors involved in good and eating habits.

Question 4

Inadequate intake, nause & vomiting, dysphagia, inability to obtain food can lead to ____ ______.

Answer 4

nutrition deprivation

Question 5

A functioning _______ is responsible for initiating internal cues that signal the individual to eat in order to supply the body with needed energy. It contains the centers for hunger and satiety.

Answer 5

hypothalamus

Question 6

When are some periods in life that a patient may experience rapid metabolism?

Answer 6

During lactation or pregnancy, first year of life at and onset of puberty.

Question 7

During the 1st level of assessment (behaviors) of nutrition, what are some things we can look at?

Answer 7

1. nutritional intake: calories vs needs (eating patterns)
2. Types of food eaten. (nutrient profile)
3. Weight compared to height.
4. appetite and thirst
5. Food allergies
6. Pain (severity, duration, onset-abrupt gradual, location, spread, radiation, frequency, quality, etc)
7. religion? vegetarian/vegan? Diabetic?

Question 8

What is TPN? NGT?

Answer 8

Total Parenteral Nutrition - used when a person cannot eat. Nasogastric Tube.

Question 9

What are some reasons artificial nutrition may be necessary?

Answer 9

Inability to: ingest food, digest or absorb food, meet nutritional needs.

Question 10

_______ is the movement of digested substances, from GI tract through cells into blood for transport.

Answer 10

Absorption (nutritional)

Question 11

_____ is the mechanical and chemical process of preparing food for absorption.

Answer 11

digestion

Question 12

(2nd level assessment) What are some possible patho-physiological condition in ingestion, digestion, absorption?

Answer 12

1. sense of taste and smell (
2. condition of oral cavity
3. Inflammation
4. Obstruction
5. Digestive enzymes
6. Disease or illness (Thyroid, Fever, CAD, obesity)

Question 13

(2nd level assessment) What are some psycho-social factors effecting nutrition?

Answer 13

Culture, religion, economic condition, self concept, eating environment, personal dietary habits.

Question 14

(2nd level assessment) What are some physiological factors effecting nutrition?

Answer 14

Ingestion: anorexia, stomatitis, dysphagia

Digestion & Absorption: ulcertve colitis, lactose intolerance

Metabolism: liver disease, infection and trauma.