Deck 2: The Toolkit for Nutritional Practice

Question 1

What is the appropriate scope of practice for Margaret, who has a three-year nutrition science degree, working in the community:

A) providing medical nutrition therapy advice to clinical cases in people's homes
B) delivering a diabetes management clinic as well education in diabetes prevention
C) as a private practitioner seeing individual clients with specific conditions
D) developing programs to build nutrition knowledge for the general population
E) as a phone counsellor for a lifestyle management program providing individualised advice

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Active listening is:

A) not sitting for too long when talking to someone
B) making sure they can hear the other person
C) making judgements quickly
D) engaging in understanding what a person is saying
E) talk over the top of somebody

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The sign of a critical thinker is a person who can:

A) criticise all points of view that vary from their own
B) evaluate and summarise current thinking on a topic area
C) agreeing with arguments because some elements are evidence-based
D) disagreeing with arguments because they do not align with your beliefs
E) remaining neutral because they see all sides of the topic

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A competent professional:

A) is only capable of following rules
B) just does what works
C) uses rules to determine how to do something
D) uses rules to determine context and conditions
E) still follows rules but understands their conditional nature

Question 5

You are consciously competent if you:

A) don't know what you don't know
B) know that you don't know
C) know and can do but need to think about it
D) know and can do without thinking about it
E) unsure about what you know and don't know

Question 6

Jane is talking to Fred about his nutritional diagnosis. Fred is 68 years old and lives in a remote country town. He is a widower and still works his farm. Identify any elements of 'culture' that will need to be taken into consideration.

Question 7

Describe five of the elements of the professional toolkit. Give an example of the importance of each element within the nutrition context.

Question 8

Describe the 4Rs of reflection.

Question 9

Describe how you are going to maintain a professional social media presence.

Question 10

Identify the key attributes of a culturally competent professional.