Reading Assignment: Nutrition
Patients:
Jacquline Catanazaro, Medical-Surgical Floor, Room 402 Pablo Rodriguez, Medical-Surgical Floor, Room 405
Objectives:
Calculate a patient's body mass index (BMI). Identify the function of select nutrients.
Describe factors that place patients at risk ...
Objectives:
Calculate a patient's body mass index (BMI).
Identify the function of select nutrients.
Describe factors that place patients at risk for nutritional problems.
Conduct a dietary history.
Identify clinical signs of nutritional alterations.
Identify appropriate diet therapies for patients in the case studies.
Exercise 1
1. When caring for a patient receiving enteral feedings, the nurse must
assess residual volume with what frequency?
a. 1 to 2 hours
b. 2 to 4
hours c. 4 to 6
hours
d. 6 to 8 hours
2. Fats (Lipids) are the most calorie-dense nutrients.
Sign in to work at Pacific View Regional Hospital on the Medical-Surgical Floor for
Period of Care 1. (Note: If you are already in the virtual hospital from a previous
exercise, click on Leave the Floor and then on Restart the Program to get to the
sign- in window.)
From the Patient List, select Jacquline Catanazaro (Room 402).
Click on Get Report and then click on Go to Nurses’ Station.
Click on Chart and then click on 402.
Click on the Nursing Admission and Physician's Orders. Review the records.
3. Based on your review of the information in the Nursing Admission, complete
the following dietary history for Jacquline Catanazaro.
• Height 5’6
• Weight 186 lb/84.5 kg
• History of food allergies: NKA
• Number of meals per day 4-6 per day
• Food preferences: usually wants high carbohydrate sweets and fast foods
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