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ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
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2. Hospice facilities focus on integrated, multidisciplinary assistance for recovery from acute or chr
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REFERENCES: The Registered Dietitian in Clinical Practicel 8 l8 l8 l8 l8 l8
3. With a minimum of 1,000 hours of related practice and at least 90 continuing education credi
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a. True
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ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Other Health Professionals—Interdisciplinary Teams
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d for notifying the dietitian if a patient’s intake is inadequate.
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ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Other Health Professionals—Interdisciplinary Teams
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w een states.
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DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Health Care Services and Reimbursement for Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)
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6. To provide optimal nutritional care, all aspects of a patient’s life must be considered.
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a. True
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ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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7. Evidence-based practice can best be defined as purposeful, self-
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DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember l8
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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8. The cognitive processes that a dietitian goes through to make clinical judgments are known as pra
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ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember l8
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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9. The steps of the decision-making process do not necessarily take place in a particular sequence.
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DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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10. The AND’s Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Performance requires that outcomes
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, ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
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NutritionTherapyandPathophysiology4thEdition,
byMarciaNelmsandKathrynP. Sucher.allChapters1-25 l8l8
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,Chapter 1 - Role of the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist in the Health Care
H H H H H H H H H H H H
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1. The Scope of Practice encompasses the range of roles, activities, and regulations within which nutrit
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i on and dietetics practitioners perform.
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a. True
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ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: The Registered Dietitian in Clinical Practicel 8 l8 l8 l8 l8 l8
2. Hospice facilities focus on integrated, multidisciplinary assistance for recovery from acute or chr
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o nic illness and/or surgical procedures.
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a. True
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DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember l8
REFERENCES: The Registered Dietitian in Clinical Practicel 8 l8 l8 l8 l8 l8
3. With a minimum of 1,000 hours of related practice and at least 90 continuing education credi
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t s, a registered dietitian may become a lactation consultant.
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a. True
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ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Other Health Professionals—Interdisciplinary Teams
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4. Medical doctors are commonly responsible for the initial nutrition screening of patients an
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d for notifying the dietitian if a patient’s intake is inadequate.
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a. True
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ANSWER: False
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Other Health Professionals—Interdisciplinary Teams
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5. Some states provide Medicaid benefits for nutrition services, but there is significant variability bet
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w een states.
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DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Health Care Services and Reimbursement for Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)
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6. To provide optimal nutritional care, all aspects of a patient’s life must be considered.
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a. True
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ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand l8
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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7. Evidence-based practice can best be defined as purposeful, self-
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regulatory judgment that results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference upon which
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that judgment is based.
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DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember l8
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Remember l8
REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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9. The steps of the decision-making process do not necessarily take place in a particular sequence.
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a. True
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REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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10. The AND’s Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Performance requires that outcomes
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, ANSWER: True
DIFFICULTY: Bloom's: Understand
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REFERENCES: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Professional Performance
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