Question 1

Which of the following has a negative influence on patient acceptance and intake of meals and food in the hospital?

Accepted Answer

Poor acceptance of meals in the hospital may be caused by improper food temperatures, unfamiliar foods, changes in the eating schedule, the patient's medical condition, or the effects of medical therapy.Having the option of selecting menu items, eating with others, and positive communications from nurses and other health care team members can help improve patient intake.

Question 2

"Inadequate energy intake" is an example of

Accepted Answer

PES statement refers to "problem" or diagnosis, "etiology," and "signs or symptoms." Inadequate energy intake is an example of a nutrition problem or diagnosis.

Question 3

Which of the following identifies a patient's health care preferences in regard to end-of-life issues?

Accepted Answer

Advance directives are legal guidelines established by a patient that designate personal health care intervention preferences or identify a person to make decisions when the patient does not have the capacity to do so.Discharge planning is a team approach to preparing for the continuity of health care after the patient leaves the hospital.Disease management is a disease-specific approach to preventing the progression of a disease while providing care in the outpatient setting.Case management encompasses discharge planning and disease management in regard to the achievement of patient health goals.

Question 4

Which of the following is a system of paying for the care of a patient based on their diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

Utilization management uses established standards to identify tests, procedures, and services in health care that have known benefits toward patient improvement.The utilization manager reviews the case management of a patient to ensure that only approved activities that will help the patient are being performed.Patient-focused care is organized around the concept that the patient is the focus of the health care team, and the patient ultimately makes the decisions in regard to health care.Case management is the overall management organized around the achievement of patient health care goals.DRG is a system of paying for the care based on the diagnosis of the patient.

Question 5

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding The Joint Commission?

Accepted Answer

The Joint Commission requires that a qualified dietitian must be involved in establishing the nutrition care process but does not specify who should accomplish the process.Accreditation is voluntary but highly regarded by insurance reimbursement and in ensuring confidence in the institution by the community.Survey visits occur every 3 years.The sections of the "Accreditation Manual for Hospital" include patient-focused functions, organization-focused functions, and structures with functions.

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT one of the benefits of electronic health records?

Accepted Answer

Customized screens and drop-down menus are easier to incorporate before the EHR is implemented for use in a health care system than later as changes require access to the programming.Many forms included have extraneous options for selection in documentation so as to limit the need for revisions.When EHR is available, the records are available through most of the health care system's computer access sites, thus eliminating the need for waiting for other health care providers to complete using the record.Because all documentation is typed, records are easier to read.

Question 7

The nutritional value of the average clear liquid diet is

Accepted Answer

The clear liquid diet consists of foods such as tea, broth, carbonated beverages, clear juices without pulp, and gelatin.As a result, this diet is very nutritionally incomplete and usually only provides 500 to 600 kcal and 5 to 10 g protein.Ideally, a patient should be transitioned to a more nutritionally complete diet as soon as the patient can tolerate more solid foods.

Question 8

A newly admitted patient is observed to have poorly fitting dental plates.Which type of diet would be most appropriate for this patient?

Accepted Answer

When a patient has poorly fitting dentures, it affects the patient's ability to chew.Difficulties with chewing and swallowing are best accommodated by a consistency-modified diet.The regular house diet, although nutritionally complete, may include foods that the patient will have difficulty chewing and swallowing, and this may be reflected by a decreased or incomplete intake.Liquid diets tend to not be nutritionally complete, and in particular, they lack fiber.A person with poorly fitting dentures would need extra calories only in the instances when either increased energy needs are determined or there exists a concern in regard to the patient's weight.

Question 9

Nutrition risk screening using the EHR is best done by

Accepted Answer

Nutrition risk screening is a very simple and efficient way to ensure that appropriate patients are seen by a dietitian.Upon admission very simple yes/no questions about weight prior to admission and gastrointestinal problems prior to admission are used to generate the consult for the RDN.

Question 10

Which of the following identifies the essential elements and activities that should occur in a patient's care?

Accepted Answer

A critical pathway is used by health care providers to identify what activities should occur at times throughout a patient's care.This is a key component of case management, which focuses on the achievement of patient-focused goals in the delivery of health care.Utilization review is a process of identifying and eliminating unnecessary health care treatments so as to provide the most cost-effective care.Diagnosis-related groups refer to a method of health care reimbursement established in the 1980s as a means of helping control health care costs.

Question 11

Utilization management is

Accepted Answer

Utilization management strives for cost efficiency by eliminating or reducing unnecessary tests, procedures, and services.HIPAA is a system for protecting personal health information.A critical pathway identifies essential elements that occur in a patient's care.

Question 12

The Joint Commission requires the identification of nutrition risk of hospital patients to occur within

Accepted Answer

Although The Joint Commission does not specify how patients should be identified for nutrition risk, all patients need to be screened for nutrition risk within 24 hours of admission, regardless of whether the patient is admitted during the week or on the weekend.Many hospitals accommodate this by including questions regarding nutrition risk in the initial nursing assessment performed on the patient.If the patient meets the hospital's nutrition risk criteria, this is communicated to the clinical nutrition staff so that further nutrition assessment can be performed.

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT true of a sentinel event?

Accepted Answer

A sentinel event has nothing to do with DRGs or reimbursement.It is an unanticipated event that involves death or serious physical or psychologic injury.The outcomes of this event must be documented in the medical record.

Question 14

Which of the following requires that health care providers ensure the protection of their patients' privacy?

Accepted Answer

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is the federal law that called for improved efficiency and privacy in regard to the use of electronic transmission of patient data.Through this, patient information is considered private and confidential, and all health care providers are responsible for ensuring this.The Joint Commission is a peer review organization that accredits health care organizations that are in compliance with minimum standards.Managed care organizations finance and provide care to subscribers of the service at a preset charge as a means of trying to control the costs of health care.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is the federal division responsible for the administration of Medicare, Medicaid, and HIPAA.

Question 15

During which step of the nutrition care process should patient-centered goals and objectives be identified?

Accepted Answer

Patient-centered goals and objectives identify the desired outcomes of nutrition care, and these are established in the nutrition intervention step after the nutrition problems are identified.During nutrition assessment, data are collected and analyzed so as to identify the nutrition problems in the nutrition diagnosis step.Nutrition monitoring and evaluation watches for the progress and achievement toward the goals and objectives.

Question 16

Which type of diet reflects a modification of the regular hospital diet by rearrangement of the number or frequency of meals?

Accepted Answer

A diet for diabetes may modify the regular hospital diet by rearranging the number or frequency of meals so as to promote blood glucose control in relation to patient activity and medication provision.A high-fiber diet is a diet modified in consistency for increased fiber.A sodium-restricted diet is a diet modified by a decrease in sodium.An allergy diet is a diet that calls for the elimination of specific foods or food substances.

Question 17

What is another name for the practice guidelines that define the appropriate and consistent care for a patient with a specific diagnosis or medical problem?

Accepted Answer

Standards of care are the basis for providing consistent quality of care to patients within a particular health care institution.They act as the overall guide to the care.A critical pathway more specifically pinpoints when particular activities of care will occur during the patient's time in the health care facility.Evidence-based practice refers to providing care based on the best, most successful practices in health care that have been demonstrated through research, consensus, or other evidence.Discharge planning prepares for taking care of the patient when the patient leaves the health care facility.

Question 18

When providing nutritional care for the terminally ill patient, dietary restrictions

Accepted Answer

When providing care for a terminally ill patient, the primary goals should be to provide comfort and quality of life.Dietary restrictions are usually implemented to prevent disease advancement; however, in the case of a terminally ill patient, using dietary restrictions will not necessarily promote quality of life.When providing nutrition care in these instances, it is more important to focus on aspects of nutritional care that can facilitate symptom and pain control.

Question 19

Which documentation style has been proposed to reflect the nutrition care process?

Accepted Answer

The nutrition care process includes four components: nutrition assessment (A), nutrition diagnosis (D), nutrition intervention (I), and nutrition monitoring and evaluation (ME).PES is another term for the nutrition diagnosis statement and refers to problem, etiology, and signs and symptoms.Focus charting is a documentation style based on the identification of, and then charting in response to, problem occurrence.SOAPIER is an extension of SOAP that includes intervention (I), evaluation (E), and revision (R).

Quiz 10: Overview of Nutrition Diagnosis and Intervention