Exam 6: Maintaining Fluid Balance and Meeting Nutritional Needs

What are contained in complex carbohydrates that make them important in the diet? (Select all that apply.)

What is the caloric value (in calories per gram [cal/g]) of protein?

What is the minimum fluid intake for an older adult?

How often does the MyPlate guidelines recommend physical activity occur?

The older adult asks for help selecting foods high in protein. What would be appropriate for the nurse to suggest? (Select all that apply.)

The older adult patient in an extended-care facility has a pressure ulcer. The nurse would encourage wound healing by increasing the patient's intake of zinc from which food sources?

When the nurse weighs an edematous patient with congestive heart failure, the weight increase from yesterday is 2.2 lb. What would be included in the plan of care for the patient? (Select all that apply.)

What is the caloric value of alcohol?

Which of the following disease processes would result in a need for an increased caloric intake?

The nurse recommends that the older patient eat chicken and fish because they contain complete proteins. What is present in complete proteins?

Inadequate fluid intake can make the older adult susceptible to which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

An older patient is having trouble with hydration. What foods could the nurse suggest to increase fluid intake?

The nurse cautions the older adult against taking excess vitamin supplements because some vitamins can be retained in fatty tissue and cause liver damage, including vitamin(s) __________. (Select all that apply.)

What is the caloric value of fat?

What is the recommended daily allowance of protein for an adult?

Older adults plagued with chronic health problems may become undernourished because they __________. (Select all that apply.)

Why is an older adult who abuses alcohol at an increased risk for nutritional deficits?

The home health nurse does an ongoing assessment of the patient who has had a subtotal gastrectomy. What vitamin deficiency should the nurse monitor for?

A patient on a fat-restricted diet is noted to have developed a pressure ulcer and decreased visual acuity. What vitamin deficiency should the nurse suspect?

The nurse caring for the older adult patient who is taking a diuretic for control of hypertension should monitor the patient closely for signs of which of the following?