Question

6. Give 3 examples of nursing questions that can be asked to assess for malnourishment? Identify 5 physical signs of malnourishment? 8pts

7. In the acute care setting nurses are essential for nutritional support. Identify three things nurses can do to promote intake of nutrition.3 pts

8. Compare and Contrast enteral feedings with parenteral feedings. Why would one be chosen over the other? List 5 similarities/differences or indications for treatment. 10 pts

9. In order of progression list the therapeutic diets that can be used for patients. Give diet choices for each. 8 pts

10. Feeding tubes are used for patients when they are unable to independently consume nutrition. How could a nurse assess for absorption of food when using a feeding tube? How often should nurses check for absorption? If she suspects that the feedings are not be absorbed what would be the next course of action? 2 pts

Answer 1

Ans-6--

1- BMI of the petient?

2- Mid upper arm circumference?

3-skin fold thickness?

Sign of malnutrition

1- Failure to thrive

2-fatique

3-mental disability

4- slow growth

5-muscular weakness

Ans-7-

1- Nurses can provide nutritional advice to the patient

2- Nurses cam help the patient in providing the balance diet

3- nurses can help the patient in providing knowledge about how he/she can improve hi/her nutritional status in long and short term basis and can give medication for early recovery

Ans-8

Similarity

1- both provide nutrition to the body

2- both route can improve malnutrition of the petient

3- both route can be used for drug administration

Differences

1- parentral route is the fast route of administration of drug as compared to entral

2- bioavailability of the parentral route is more as compared to entral

3- parental route can be use in give nutrition and glucose and drug in case of operations

Ans-9

High nutritional diet

Eggs and vitamins

Fruits and dry fruits

Pulses ,lagumes,,rice ,cearls

Fortified milk and other food item

Ans-10

Feeding tube - as the condition of the patient improve after the feeding tells about the absorption ,as in case if there is deficiency of vitamin then symptoms of the that deficiency improve

If absorption not occur then nurses search for the cause for the not absorption of the food and nurse start the parentral route of nutrition