Describe three types of Nasogastric (NG) tubes.
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Nutrition/Gastrointestinal
Worksheet must be handwritten, complete, thorough and accurate for points (all or nothing type assignment).
- Poor nutrition is associated with what complications?
- What is a nutritional assessment and why is it completed?
- What 5 areas do nutritional assessments address?
- List 3 questions to ask when completing a nutritional assessment on a patient.
- List 3 ways to promote nutritional intake.
- List 3 modified consistency diets.
- When caring for a patient with a visual deficit, how should we direct them to where food is located on their plate?
- Which diet is usually ordered first preoperatively and what must return before a patient can eat.
- Complete the following table:
| Diet | Foods included in this type of diet |
| Clear liquid | |
| Full liquid | |
| Pureed | |
| Mechanical Soft | |
| Regular | |
| Soft/low residue | |
| High fiber |
- How much water should adults consume per day?
- Which items must be included when calculating intake? Output?
- What is parenteral nutrition (PN) and why is it used? How is enteral nutrition different?
- What does PN consist of and who administers it?
- If your patient has burns on 50% of his body, what type of nutrition would you, as a nurse, recommend to the patient?
- Describe the difference between enteral and parenteral nutrition.
- Describe how malabsorption syndromes effect a patient’s nutritional status
- Name 2 disease processes that might be treated with parenteral nutrition
- What are the fat-soluble vitamins and what disease process affecting the absorption of these?
- Describe three types of Nasogastric (NG) tubes.
- Describe three purposes/uses of NG tubes.
- List and describe the 2 types of suction used in gastric decompression.
- How much suction pressure should be used in gastric decompression?
- Describe the use of irrigation and its role in gastric decompression.
- What should you do if you notice a significant decrease or absence of output over several hours?
- You should check I & O from a gastric lavage at least how often?
- What is the purpose of gastric lavage?
- What are contraindications of gastric lavage?
- List 3 advantages to using enteral feedings versus parenteral nutrition (TPN)?
heet must be handwritten, complete, thorough and accurate for points (all or nothing type assignment).
- Poor nutrition is associated with what complications?
- What is a nutritional assessment and why is it completed?
- What 5 areas do nutritional assessments address?
- List 3 questions to ask when completing a nutritional assessment on a patient.
- List 3 ways to promote nutritional intake.
- List 3 modified consistency diets.
- When caring for a patient with a visual deficit, how should we direct them to where food is located on their plate?
- Which diet is usually ordered first preoperatively and what must return before a patient can eat.
- Complete the following table:
| Diet | Foods included in this type of diet |
| Clear liquid | |
| Full liquid | |
| Pureed | |
| Mechanical Soft | |
| Regular | |
| Soft/low residue | |
| High fiber |
- How much water should adults consume per day?
- Which items must be included when calculating intake? Output?
- What is parenteral nutrition (PN) and why is it used? How is enteral nutrition different?
- What does PN consist of and who administers it?
- If your patient has burns on 50% of his body, what type of nutrition would you, as a nurse, recommend to the patient?
- Describe the difference between enteral and parenteral nutrition.
- Describe how malabsorption syndromes effect a patient’s nutritional status
- Name 2 disease processes that might be treated with parenteral nutrition
- What are the fat-soluble vitamins and what disease process affecting the absorption of these?
- Describe three types of Nasogastric (NG) tubes.
- Describe three purposes/uses of NG tubes.
- List and describe the 2 types of suction used in gastric decompression.
- How much suction pressure should be used in gastric decompression?
- Describe the use of irrigation and its role in gastric decompression.
- What should you do if you notice a significant decrease or absence of output over several hours?
- You should check I & O from a gastric lavage at least how often?
- What is the purpose of gastric lavage?
- What are contraindications of gastric lavage?
- List 3 advantages to using enteral feedings versus parenteral nutrition (TPN)?
Nutrition/Gastrointestinal
Worksheet must be handwritten, complete, thorough and accurate for points (all or nothing type assignment).
- Poor nutrition is associated with what complications?
- What is a nutritional assessment and why is it completed?
- What 5 areas do nutritional assessments address?
- List 3 questions to ask when completing a nutritional assessment on a patient.
- List 3 ways to promote nutritional intake.
- List 3 modified consistency diets.
- When caring for a patient with a visual deficit, how should we direct them to where food is located on their plate?
- Which diet is usually ordered first preoperatively and what must return before a patient can eat.
- Complete the following table:
| Diet | Foods included in this type of diet |
| Clear liquid | |
| Full liquid | |
| Pureed | |
| Mechanical Soft | |
| Regular | |
| Soft/low residue | |
| High fiber |
- How much water should adults consume per day?
- Which items must be included when calculating intake? Output?
- What is parenteral nutrition (PN) and why is it used? How is enteral nutrition different?
- What does PN consist of and who administers it?
- If your patient has burns on 50% of his body, what type of nutrition would you, as a nurse, recommend to the patient?
- Describe the difference between enteral and parenteral nutrition.
- Describe how malabsorption syndromes effect a patient’s nutritional status
- Name 2 disease processes that might be treated with parenteral nutrition
- What are the fat-soluble vitamins and what disease process affecting the absorption of these?
- Describe three types of Nasogastric (NG) tubes.
- Describe three purposes/uses of NG tubes.
- List and describe the 2 types of suction used in gastric decompression.
- How much suction pressure should be used in gastric decompression?
- Describe the use of irrigation and its role in gastric decompression.
- What should you do if you notice a significant decrease or absence of output over several hours?
- You should check I & O from a gastric lavage at least how often?
- What is the purpose of gastric lavage?
- What are contraindications of gastric lavage?
- List 3 advantages to using enteral feedings versus parenteral nutrition (TPN)?
