KRAUSE AND MAHAN’S FOOD AND THE
NUTRITION CARE PROCESS UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE FULL
SOLUTION
●● Nutrition assessment
Answer: Process of obtaining, verifying, and interpreting data to make
decisions about nature/cause of nutrition related problem
●● Diagnosis
Answer: Dieticians are responsible for treating this independently.
Identifies and lables occurance, risk or potential of nutritional problem
●● Nutrition Intervention
Answer: Set of activities used to address nutrition diagnosis, i.e. through
education
●● Monitoring and Evaluation
Answer: Determining degree to which progess is being made; requires
commitment
, ●● PES statement
Answer: P - Problem
E - Etiology
S - Signs and Symptoms
●● Any alteration in nutrition status that can be diagnosed
independently; about 70 of them exist
Answer: Problem (diagnosis)
●● Factors that contribute to the problem
Answer: Etiology
●● Writing the etiology, it should say
Answer: (Problem) related to (etiology)...
●● Biochemical data, medical test/procedure, anthroprometics, food and
nutrition history
Answer: Signs and Symptoms
●● When writing the signs and symptoms in PES statement:
Answer: (problem) related to (etiology) as evidenced by (signs and
symptoms)
NUTRITION CARE PROCESS UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE FULL
SOLUTION
●● Nutrition assessment
Answer: Process of obtaining, verifying, and interpreting data to make
decisions about nature/cause of nutrition related problem
●● Diagnosis
Answer: Dieticians are responsible for treating this independently.
Identifies and lables occurance, risk or potential of nutritional problem
●● Nutrition Intervention
Answer: Set of activities used to address nutrition diagnosis, i.e. through
education
●● Monitoring and Evaluation
Answer: Determining degree to which progess is being made; requires
commitment
, ●● PES statement
Answer: P - Problem
E - Etiology
S - Signs and Symptoms
●● Any alteration in nutrition status that can be diagnosed
independently; about 70 of them exist
Answer: Problem (diagnosis)
●● Factors that contribute to the problem
Answer: Etiology
●● Writing the etiology, it should say
Answer: (Problem) related to (etiology)...
●● Biochemical data, medical test/procedure, anthroprometics, food and
nutrition history
Answer: Signs and Symptoms
●● When writing the signs and symptoms in PES statement:
Answer: (problem) related to (etiology) as evidenced by (signs and
symptoms)