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The document provides steps for a healthy diet and lifestyle: 1. Choose foods low in salt and sodium, eat the right amount and types of protein, and choose foods that are healthy for your heart. 2. Choose foods and drinks low in phosphorus and with the right amount of potassium. 3. Nurses can screen patients for malnutrition risk and refer them to dietitians for detailed nutrition assessments and support. Weight changes are important factors to consider in nutritional screening.

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The document provides steps for a healthy diet and lifestyle: 1. Choose foods low in salt and sodium, eat the right amount and types of protein, and choose foods that are healthy for your heart. 2. Choose foods and drinks low in phosphorus and with the right amount of potassium. 3. Nurses can screen patients for malnutrition risk and refer them to dietitians for detailed nutrition assessments and support. Weight changes are important factors to consider in nutritional screening.

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SAS 27

LESSON PREVIEW
Step 1: Choose and prepare foods with less salt and sodium
Step 2: Eat the right amount and the right types of protein
Step 3: Choose foods that are healthy for your heart
Step 4: Choose foods and drinks with less phosphorus
Step 5: Choose foods with the right amount of potassium

CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING


Multiple Choice

1. a. Screen patients for risk of malnutrition


Rationale: Nurses have been identified as being in an ideal position to carry out routine nutritional screening to detect patients at risk
of malnutrition and hence refer to the dietitian for detailed nutritional assessment and provision of nutritional support.

2. c. weight change
Rationale: Nutritional screening is a first-line process of identifying patients who are already malnourished or at risk of becoming so,
that should be performed systematically in patients at hospital admission. Patients with nutritional risk should subsequently
undergo a more detailed nutritional assessment to identify and quantify specific nutritional problems. Such an assessment
includes subjective and objective parameters such as medical history, current and past dietary intake, physical examination
and anthropometric measurements (BMI, weight changes), functional and mental assessment, quality of life, and
medications. Therefore, option C is the best option.

3. b. "What is the question? If I can't answer it, I will get the dietitian to come back to answer it."
Rationale: Nurses can integrate nutrition into the nursing care process to develop care plans that address the individual's needs. Nurses
are not expected to be dietitians. but rather use nutrition to provide quality nursing care. Nurses can reinforce nutrition
counseling done by the dietitian and initiate counseling for clients with low or mild risk. Therefore, option B is the correct
answer.
4. d. Eliminating all carbohydrates from their diets
Rationale: Along with the above-mentioned characteristics, successful dieters monitor their weight, practice portion control, increase
physical activity, and aim for healthy realistic weight loss ranging from 10% to 20% of initial bodyweight in a year. Successful
dieters maintain their motivation by celebrating the achievement of weight-loss milestones.

5. e. All of the above


Rationale: Health promotion aims to make these conditions favourable, through advocacy for health. All choices above are strategies
to help the client engage in health promotion activities. Therefore, option E is the best option.

LESSON WRAP-UP
Cat: 3-2-1

Three things you learned:


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Two things that you’d like to learn more about:


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One question you still have:


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