QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPLETE
ACCURATE AND VERIFIED.
What are elements that are found in food and necessary for good health but that
the body cannot make?
a. important nutrients
b. lifesaving nutrients
c. essential nutrients
d. necessary nutrients
c
The nurse recognizes that when a patient is unable to consume adequate
nutrition by mouth, an alternative route such as a feeding ostomy may be used.
What is the proper term for feeding a patient by this method?
a. Total parental nutrition (TPN)
b. nasogastric
c. enteral
d. parenteral
c
The nurse has assessed a patient's body mass index (BMI) to be 19.6. This
assessment of weight versus heigh indicates that his patient's weight category is
in which category?
a. low health risk
b. overweight
c. obese
d. morbidly obese
a
, A fit, young woman was at zero nitrogen balance. The nurse discovers that this
patient is now pregnant with her first child. For what is this patient at risk?
a. embolism
b. anabolism
c. catabolism
d. metabolism
b
The nurse teaches a patient who has a nonfunctioning or dysfunctional GI tract
that total parenteral nutrition (TPN) will be infused. Where will this infusion
occur?
a. through the carotid artery
b. through the superior vena cava
c. through the femoral vein
d. through the inferior vena cava
b
The body uses 22 common amino acids, but 9 of them must be obtained from
protein in the diet. What are these proteins considered?
a. essential
b. basic
c. fundamental
d. primary
a
The nurse makes nutrition a focus in the care plan. Where does nutrition play the
most important role?
a. weigh control
b. sustained appetite
c. building strong bones
d. health maintenance
d