ATI Nutrition for Nursing (Edition 8.0)
Exam 2025 With 100% Correct Answers
Regular diet (normal or house diet) - correct answers ✔✔- Indicated for clients who do not need dietary
restrictions. The diet is adjusted to meet age specific needs throughout life cycle.
- Modify the diet to accommodate individual preferences, food habits, and ethnic values.
Clear liquid diet - correct answers ✔✔- A diet that consists of foods that are liquid at room temperature
and leave little residue in the intestine.
- Primarily to prevent dehydration and relieve thirst, this diet consists of water and carbohydrates.
Ex: Water, Sprite, Ginger Ale, all beverages without any residue, broth, gelatin
Full liquid diet (Not often used, removed from many manuals) - correct answers ✔✔- Consists of foods
that are liquid at room temperature including ice cream and strained cereals. Some facilities will include
pureed vegetables.
- Offers more variety/nutritional support than clear liquid diet, but still may require supplementation of
proteins and carbs.
-Use cautiously in clients with dysphagia, unless thickened appropriately
Blenderized liquid (pureed) diet - correct answers ✔✔- liquids and foods that are pureed to liquid form
Indications: clients who have chewing or swallowing difficulties, oral or facial surgery, and wired jaws
Appropriate foods: any food with added broth, milk, gravy, cream, soup, tomato sauce, water, or fruit
juice to puree.
Soft (bland, low-fiber) diet - correct answers ✔✔this type of diet contains whole foods that are low in
fiber, lightly seasoned, and easily digested. They avoid foods high in residue.
, Food selections vary can include smooth, creamy or crisp textures
EXCLUDED from this diet: Raw fruits, and vegetables, coarse breads and cereals, beans and other
potentially gas forming foods. (avoiding foods high in residue)
Indications: include clients transitioning between full liquid and regular diets, and those who have acute
infections, chwing difficulties or GI disorders
Mechanical soft diet - correct answers ✔✔- regular diet that is modified in texture
Indications: limited chewing ability, dysphagia, poorly fitting dentures, and clients who are edentulous
(without teeth), surgery to the head, neck, or mouth, and strictures of the intestinal tract
Appropriate foods: require minimal chewing before swallowing such as ground meats, canned fruits,
softly cooked vegetables
Dysphagia diet - correct answers ✔✔Prescribed when swallowing is impaired (following a stroke)
Manifestations of dysphagia are drooling, pocketing food, choking, or gagging.
International Dysphagia diet: www.iddsi.org
Examples of Nasoenteric tubes - correct answers ✔✔NG tubes, nasoduodenal tubes, nasojejunal tubes)
How long do nasoenteric tubes stay placed? - correct answers ✔✔Used short-term (less than 3-4 weeks)
Placement of Nasogastric (NG) tubes - correct answers ✔✔passed through the nose to the stomach
Placement of Nasoduodenal tubes - correct answers ✔✔pass from the nose through the stomach and
end in the duodenum
Exam 2025 With 100% Correct Answers
Regular diet (normal or house diet) - correct answers ✔✔- Indicated for clients who do not need dietary
restrictions. The diet is adjusted to meet age specific needs throughout life cycle.
- Modify the diet to accommodate individual preferences, food habits, and ethnic values.
Clear liquid diet - correct answers ✔✔- A diet that consists of foods that are liquid at room temperature
and leave little residue in the intestine.
- Primarily to prevent dehydration and relieve thirst, this diet consists of water and carbohydrates.
Ex: Water, Sprite, Ginger Ale, all beverages without any residue, broth, gelatin
Full liquid diet (Not often used, removed from many manuals) - correct answers ✔✔- Consists of foods
that are liquid at room temperature including ice cream and strained cereals. Some facilities will include
pureed vegetables.
- Offers more variety/nutritional support than clear liquid diet, but still may require supplementation of
proteins and carbs.
-Use cautiously in clients with dysphagia, unless thickened appropriately
Blenderized liquid (pureed) diet - correct answers ✔✔- liquids and foods that are pureed to liquid form
Indications: clients who have chewing or swallowing difficulties, oral or facial surgery, and wired jaws
Appropriate foods: any food with added broth, milk, gravy, cream, soup, tomato sauce, water, or fruit
juice to puree.
Soft (bland, low-fiber) diet - correct answers ✔✔this type of diet contains whole foods that are low in
fiber, lightly seasoned, and easily digested. They avoid foods high in residue.
, Food selections vary can include smooth, creamy or crisp textures
EXCLUDED from this diet: Raw fruits, and vegetables, coarse breads and cereals, beans and other
potentially gas forming foods. (avoiding foods high in residue)
Indications: include clients transitioning between full liquid and regular diets, and those who have acute
infections, chwing difficulties or GI disorders
Mechanical soft diet - correct answers ✔✔- regular diet that is modified in texture
Indications: limited chewing ability, dysphagia, poorly fitting dentures, and clients who are edentulous
(without teeth), surgery to the head, neck, or mouth, and strictures of the intestinal tract
Appropriate foods: require minimal chewing before swallowing such as ground meats, canned fruits,
softly cooked vegetables
Dysphagia diet - correct answers ✔✔Prescribed when swallowing is impaired (following a stroke)
Manifestations of dysphagia are drooling, pocketing food, choking, or gagging.
International Dysphagia diet: www.iddsi.org
Examples of Nasoenteric tubes - correct answers ✔✔NG tubes, nasoduodenal tubes, nasojejunal tubes)
How long do nasoenteric tubes stay placed? - correct answers ✔✔Used short-term (less than 3-4 weeks)
Placement of Nasogastric (NG) tubes - correct answers ✔✔passed through the nose to the stomach
Placement of Nasoduodenal tubes - correct answers ✔✔pass from the nose through the stomach and
end in the duodenum
