PREP U Chapters 37,29,57 Nutrition

A client is discussing vitamin and mineral intake with the nurse. Which client statement requires further nursing teaching?

"My husband and I are ordering a product that has mega-doses of vitamins."

A nurse is teaching a client about prescribed lansoprazole. The nurse instructs the client to take the drug at which time?

1 hour before eating

A client is prescribed a proton pump inhibitor to treat erosive gastritis. How soon will the client's symptoms be resolved?

1 to 2 weeks

When teaching a client with iron deficiency anemia about appropriate food choices, the nurse encourages the client to increase the dietary intake of which foods?

Beans, dried fruits, and leafy, green vegetables

An athlete wants to increase her intake of complex carbohydrates and asks the nurse about potential sources. Which food is considered a complex carbohydrate?

Bread, cereal, potatoes, rice, pasta, crackers, flour products, and legumes

The nurse and the client are discussing some strategies for ingesting iron to combat the client's iron-deficiency anemia. Which is among the nurse's strategies?

Drink liquid iron preparations with a straw.

Which of the following describes a red blood cell (RBC) that has pale or lighter cellular contents?

Hypochromic

Carter, age 2, is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis; the physician places him on pancrelipase. What would be the most appropriate diagnosis for Carter related to his medication regimen?

Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements, related to impaired digestion secondary to insufficient pancreatic enzymes

A client who is recovering from a stroke has begun tube feedings. Which principle should the nurse follow when administering the tube feeding?

Intermittent feedings use gravity for instillation or a feeding pump to administer the formula over a set period of time.

A nursing instructor is evaluating a student caring for a neutropenic client. The instructor concludes that the nursing student demonstrates accurate knowledge of neutropenia based on which intervention?

Monitoring the client's temperature and reviewing the client's complete blood count (CBC) with differential

A client with multiple myeloma is complaining of severe pain when the nurse comes in to give a bath and change position. What is the priority intervention by the nurse?

Obtain the pain medication and delay the bath and position change until the medication reaches its peak.

A client is diagnosed with peptic ulcer due to H. pylori. The nurse would anticipate administering which agent in conjunction with an antibiotic?

Omeprazole

A female client presents to the health care provider's office with increasing stomach acidity. She self-administers calcium antacids. She notes that she seems to be having more issues with stomach acid, so she has been taking the calcium antacids more frequently. The nurse suspects that this may have caused what to occur in this client?

Rebound acidity

A client is prescribed 325 mg/day of oral ferrous sulfate. What does the nurse include in client teaching?

Take 1 hour before breakfast

The charge nurse is observing a new nurse care for a client who is receiving a continuous feeding through a nasogastric feeding tube. Which action by the new nurse would require intervention by the charge nurse?

The new nurse places the client in the left lateral recumbent position.

After receiving chemotherapy for lung cancer, a client's platelet count falls to 98,000/mm3. What term should the nurse use to describe this low platelet count?

Thrombocytopenia

A health care provider orders nutritional therapy administered via a central vein for a client who cannot take foods orally. What is the term for this type of nutrition?

Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)

The nursing instructor is teaching students about proper administration of sucralfate. According to the instructor, sucralfate should be administered:

an hour before meals.

A nurse is caring for a client who has been ordered a clear liquid diet. Which liquid can be included in the client's diet?

cranberry juice

A client has been diagnosed with a deficiency in a fat-soluble vitamin. Which vitamin supplement is most likely to benefit the client?

vitamin E