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Nutrition Therapy &
Pathophysiology Test Bank (4th
Edition) by Marcia Nelms & Kathryn
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,Chapter 01 - Role of the Dietitian in the Health Care System
True / False

1. The Scope of Practice encompasses the range of roles, activities, and regulations within which nutrition
and dietetics practitioners perform.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
REFERENCES: The Registered Dietitian in Clinical Practice

2. Hospice facilities focus on integrated, multidisciplinary assistance for recovery from acute or chronic
illness and/or surgical procedures.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember
REFERENCES: The Registered Dietitian in Clinical Practice

3. With a minimum of 1,000 hours of related practice and at least 90 continuing education credits, a
registered dietitian may become a lactation consultant.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
REFERENCES: Other Health Professionals—Interdisciplinary Teams

4. Medical doctors are commonly responsible for the initial nutrition screening of patients and for notifying the
dietitian if a patient’sintakeisinadequate.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
REFERENCES: Other Health Professionals—Interdisciplinary Teams

5. Some states provide Medicaid benefits for nutrition services, but there is significant variability between states.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
REFERENCES: Health Care Services and Reimbursement for Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)

6. To provide optimal nutritional care, all aspects of a patient’slifemustbeconsidered.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True

,DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
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, Chapter 01 - Role of the Dietitian in the Health Care System

REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance

7. Evidence-based practice can best be defined as purposeful, self-
regulatory judgment that results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference upon which that
judgment is ba sed.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance

8. The cognitive processes that a dietitian goes through to make clinical judgments are known as practice standards.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance

70. The steps of the decision-making process do not necessarily take place in a particular sequence.
True
False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance

10. The AND’sCode of Ethics and Standards of Professional Performance requires that outcomes are
measurable and evidence-based.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance

Multiple Choice

11. A hospital that is owned or managed by the community or a religious organization rather than a group of
investors is c lassified as:
a. private profit.
b. veterans/military.
c. private not for profit.
d. public not for profit.
e. public for profit.
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember
REFERENCES: The Registered Dietitian in Clinical Practice

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