1. Poor nutrition is associated with what complications?
2. What is a nutritional assessment and why is it completed?
3. What 5 areas do nutritional assessments address?
4. List 3 questions to ask when completing a nutritional assessment on a patient.
5. List 3 ways to promote nutritional intake.
6. List 3 modified consistency diets.
7. When caring for a patient with a visual deficit, how should we direct them to where food is located on their plate?
8. Which diet is usually ordered first preoperatively and what must return before a patient can eat.
9. Complete the following table:
Diet Foods included in this type of diet
Clear liquid
Full liquid
Pureed
Mechanical Soft
Regular
Soft/low residue
High fiber
10. How much water should adults consume per day?
11. Which items must be included when calculating intake? Output?
12. What is parenteral nutrition (PN) and why is it used? How is enteral nutrition different?
13. What does PN consist of and who administers it?
14. If your patient has burns on 50% of his body, what type of nutrition would you, as a nurse, recommend to the patient?
15. Describe the difference between enteral and parenteral nutrition.
16. Describe how malabsorption syndromes effect a patient’s nutritional status
17. Name 2 disease processes that might be treated with parenteral nutrition
18. What are the fat-soluble vitamins and what disease process affecting the absorption of these?
19. Describe three types of Nasogastric (NG) tubes.
20. Describe three purposes/uses of NG tubes.
21. List and describe the 2 types of suction used in gastric decompression.
22. How much suction pressure should be used in gastric decompression?
23. Describe the use of irrigation and its role in gastric decompression.
24. What should you do if you notice a significant decrease or absence of output over several hours?
25. You should check I & O from a gastric lavage at least how often?
26. What is the purpose of gastric lavage?
27. What are contraindications of gastric lavage?
28. List 3 advantages to using enteral feedings versus parenteral nutrition (TPN)?
