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Week 8 Nutritional Needs Flashcards

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Assessment acronym for nutrition

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Anthropometric data

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  • Height
  • Weight (ideal, usual, BMI)
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Biochemical Data

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  • Haemoglobin
  • Serum albumin
  • Total lymphocytes count
  • Skin
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Clinical data

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  • Hair and nails
  • Mucous membranes
  • Activity level
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Dietary data

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  • 24hr food recall
  • Food frequency
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Environmental data

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  • Living conditions
  • Education
  • Income
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Health history

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  • Age, sex & activity level
  • Eating
  • Appetite changes
  • Weight changes
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Physical assessment

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  • General appearance and vitality
  • Weight
  • Skin
  • Nails
  • Hair
  • Eyes
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Underweight

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< 18.50 BMI

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Normal weight

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18.50 - 24.99 BMI

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Overweight

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25.00 - 29.99 BMI

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Obese class 1

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30.00 - 34.99 BMI

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Obese class 2

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35.00 - 39.99 BMI

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Obese class 3

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> 40.00 BMI

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How to calculate BMI

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weight in kg/ (height m)^2

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Used for synthesis of muscle growth/repair

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Protein

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17
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Used for cellular processing

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Carbohydrates

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Concentrated energy

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Fats

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19
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Identify and address possible reasons for poor intake

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  • Nausea
  • Appetite
  • Chewing/swallowing problems
  • Dislike of menu choices
  • Pain
  • Anxiety/depression
  • Difficulty feeding self
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Regular diet containing any food or liquid

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Full diet

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Plainly cooked, low in fat

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Light diet

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Tea, coffee, clear soups, clear juice and jelly

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Clear fluid diet

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Any liquid or food that turns into liquid at body temp
- ice cream
- custard

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Full fluid diet

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Easily chewed and digested

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Soft diet

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Modification off soft diet to semisolid consistency

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Pureed diet

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Dysphagia

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Difficulty swallowing

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GIT aspirate secretion
- grassy green
- off white
- tan

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Gastric

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GIT aspirate secretion
- golden yellow
- brownish green

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Interstitial

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pH of aspirated fluid
- Gastric
- Small Intestine
- Respiratory

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  • Gastric 1-4
  • Small Intestine pH 6 or higher
  • Respiratory pH 7 or higher
30
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Tests for confirming enteral feeding tube placement

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  • Aspirate secretions
  • Measure pH of aspirated fluid
  • Confirm length of tube
31
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Patient should be elevated ____

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30-45 degrees during feeding and at least 30 mins after finish

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Administering enteral tube feeding

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  • Maintain asepsis
  • Provide regular mouth care
  • Monitor fluid balance
  • Monitor for complications (malabsorption, diarrhoea)
  • Monitor for sings of infection around insertion site
  • Pressure area
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When something (food, fluid, object) enters the airways accidentally

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Aspiration

34
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Rate of energy utilisation in the body required to maintain essential activities such as breathing

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Basal metabolic rate

35
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Indicate whether body weight is appropriate for body height

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Body mass index

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Compound critical to provision of energy to body cells. Main source of energy providing fuel for the brain, nervous system, skeletal muscle and cellular processes.

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Carbohydrate

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A lipid that does not contain fatty acids but possesses many of the chemical and physical properties of other lipids

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Cholesterol

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The process of converting food into substances that the body can utilise

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Digestion

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Nutrition delivered to the gastrointestinal system.

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Enteral nutrition

40
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A metric measurement referring to the amount of energy required when a force of 1 newton moves 1 kg of weight 1m distance

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Kilojoule

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Otherwise known as fats. Is the most concentrated source of energy.

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Lipid

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A state of sub-optimal nutrition and can result from insufficient or excessive total food intake.

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Malnutrition

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Refers to all biochemical reactions within the cells of the body.

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Metabolism

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Tube for providing enteral feeding that is inserted through the nose to the stomach.

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Nasogastric tube

45
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What a person eats and how the body utilises it

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Nutrition

46
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Specialised method of nutrition support provided directly into the blood stream intravenously.

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Parenteral nutrition

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Feeding catheter inserted directly into the stomach though the skin and subcutaneous tissue of the abdomen.

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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)

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