Nutri Assessment Flashcards
Q: What are the QSEN nursing competencies?
A: Patient-centered care, Teamwork and collaboration, Quality improvement, Safety, and Informatics.
Q: What is the impact of a woman’s prenatal diet on the long-term health of her children?
A: Placental insufficiency, maternal malnutrition, and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) can impair infant growth, potentially leading to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
Q: What are the main roles of the nutrition team in patient care?
A: Doctors write orders (including diet), nurses help identify patients in need of nutrition services, and registered dietitians provide detailed nutrition assessments and interventions.
Q: What is iatrogenic malnutrition?
A: Malnutrition inadvertently caused by treatment or diagnostic procedures.
Q: What is the Nutrition Care Process (NCP)?
A: The NCP consists of nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring, and evaluation.
Q: What is required by the Joint Commission within 48 hours of hospital admission?
A: Nutrition screening to identify patients with malnutrition or at nutritional risk.
Q: What are the types of adult malnutrition?
A: - Starvation-related malnutrition (chronic starvation without inflammation)
• Chronic disease-related malnutrition (chronic inflammation of mild to moderate degree)
• Acute disease/injury-related malnutrition (acute inflammation of severe degree).
Q: What is the ABCD approach to nutritional assessment?
A: Anthropometric measurements
B: Biochemical analysis
C: Clinical assessment
D: Dietary intake assessment.
Q: What are some risk factors for drug-nutrient interactions?
A: Age, physiologic status, polypharmacy (multiple drug intake), and dietary intake.
Q: What are the effects of food on drug action?
A: Food intake and composition can affect drug absorption, and timing of drug administration relative to meals can be significant.
Q: What are some physical signs of nutrient deficiencies?
- Dull, brittle hair: Protein deficiency
• Epistaxis: Vitamin K deficiency
• Pale conjunctiva: Iron deficiency
• Glossitis: Deficiency in niacin, folate, vitamin B12, or other B vitamins
• Poor wound healing: Deficiency in zinc, vitamin C, or protein
• Spoon-shaped nails: Iron deficiency
• Tremor: Magnesium deficiency.
Q: What BMI range is considered normal for healthy adults?
A: A BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m² is considered normal.
Q: What are common methods of dietary intake assessment?
A: 24-hour recall, food records, and kilocalorie counts.
Q: What is the main focus of medical nutrition therapy under Medicare?
A: It is used for the treatment of conditions such as prerenal failure and diabetes.
Q: What role do dietetic technicians (DTRs) play in patient nutrition care?
A: They take diet histories, collect information for nutrition screening, and provide basic nutrition education.
