MNT- Nutrition Assessment UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is the use of specific nutritional interventions to treat an illness, injury or condition -
CORRECT ANSWER - Medical Nutrition Therapy
What is the application of the Nutrition Care Process - CORRECT ANSWER - Medical
Nutrition Therapy
What is the extent to which individual is meeting physiological nutritional needs - CORRECT
ANSWER - Nutritional Status
Why is nutritional status important - CORRECT ANSWER - correlates with overall health,
alterations affect the way the body functions
What are factors affecting undernutrition - CORRECT ANSWER - Poor po intake,
Impaired digestion/absorption, Altered metabolic process, Increased excretion of nutrients
What would FTT, slow development, osteoporosis and anemia result from - CORRECT
ANSWER - undernutrition
What does poor immune function, wound healing and high risk of morbidity and mortality result
from - CORRECT ANSWER - undernutrition
What does obesity, diabetes, syndrome X and Metabolic syndrome result from - CORRECT
ANSWER - overnutrition
What does ASHD, HTN and high risk of morbidity and mortality result from - CORRECT
ANSWER - overnutrition
, Who is at Nutritional Risk? - CORRECT ANSWER - individuals who are Elderly,
Infants/Children, disease states, Pregnant women, Low income, Hospitalized, Teen females
How is nutrition risk determined - CORRECT ANSWER - screening and assessment
When are patients screened from nutrition risk - CORRECT ANSWER - within 24 hours
of admission
Who screens patients for nutritional risk - CORRECT ANSWER - Tech or RN
What assessment identifies the patient's perception of his ability to accomplish self care and the
environment when he spends - CORRECT ANSWER - Subjective Global Assessment
(SGA)
What are 3 types of nutrition screening tools - CORRECT ANSWER - Subjective Global
Assessment, Patientâ€"Generated Subjective Global Assessment, Mini Nutritional Assessment
What height, weight, appetite, diagnosis, difficulty chewing/swallowing, food allergies, labs,
meds, GI - CORRECT ANSWER - nutrition screen
When is a nutritional assessment completed - CORRECT ANSWER - when someone is at
nutritional risk
What is an example of a patient at nutritional risk - CORRECT ANSWER - 15%
unintentional weight loss
Who interprets nutritional assessment data - CORRECT ANSWER - registered dietitian
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is the use of specific nutritional interventions to treat an illness, injury or condition -
CORRECT ANSWER - Medical Nutrition Therapy
What is the application of the Nutrition Care Process - CORRECT ANSWER - Medical
Nutrition Therapy
What is the extent to which individual is meeting physiological nutritional needs - CORRECT
ANSWER - Nutritional Status
Why is nutritional status important - CORRECT ANSWER - correlates with overall health,
alterations affect the way the body functions
What are factors affecting undernutrition - CORRECT ANSWER - Poor po intake,
Impaired digestion/absorption, Altered metabolic process, Increased excretion of nutrients
What would FTT, slow development, osteoporosis and anemia result from - CORRECT
ANSWER - undernutrition
What does poor immune function, wound healing and high risk of morbidity and mortality result
from - CORRECT ANSWER - undernutrition
What does obesity, diabetes, syndrome X and Metabolic syndrome result from - CORRECT
ANSWER - overnutrition
What does ASHD, HTN and high risk of morbidity and mortality result from - CORRECT
ANSWER - overnutrition
, Who is at Nutritional Risk? - CORRECT ANSWER - individuals who are Elderly,
Infants/Children, disease states, Pregnant women, Low income, Hospitalized, Teen females
How is nutrition risk determined - CORRECT ANSWER - screening and assessment
When are patients screened from nutrition risk - CORRECT ANSWER - within 24 hours
of admission
Who screens patients for nutritional risk - CORRECT ANSWER - Tech or RN
What assessment identifies the patient's perception of his ability to accomplish self care and the
environment when he spends - CORRECT ANSWER - Subjective Global Assessment
(SGA)
What are 3 types of nutrition screening tools - CORRECT ANSWER - Subjective Global
Assessment, Patientâ€"Generated Subjective Global Assessment, Mini Nutritional Assessment
What height, weight, appetite, diagnosis, difficulty chewing/swallowing, food allergies, labs,
meds, GI - CORRECT ANSWER - nutrition screen
When is a nutritional assessment completed - CORRECT ANSWER - when someone is at
nutritional risk
What is an example of a patient at nutritional risk - CORRECT ANSWER - 15%
unintentional weight loss
Who interprets nutritional assessment data - CORRECT ANSWER - registered dietitian
