NCM 105 Nutrition and Diet Therapy (Lecture) Quiz 02

Name: Vin Mark F. Gianan Date: November 11, 2021

Course/Block: BSN-2A

Answer the following questions.

1. What are the four steps of Nutrition Care Process? Explain briefly.

- The four steps of Nutrition care process are Nutrition Assessment, which is the cornerstone of
nutritional treatment; it serves as a crucial foundation for customizing a person's nutritional care based
on the cause, prevention, or treatment of a disease. Nutrition diagnosis, it includes identification of
specific nutrition problem based on the nutrition assessment data. Nutrition Intervention, it refers to
purposely-planned actions designed with the intent of changing a nutrition-related behavior, risk factor,
environmental condition, or aspect of health status for an individual, a target group, or population at
large. Nutrition Monitoring and evaluation, which is to determine and measure the amount of progress
made for the nutrition intervention and whether the nutrition related goals/expected outcomes are
being met.

2. What are the components of nutrition diagnosis?

 Problem (diagnostic label)

 Etiology (Cause/contributing risk factor)
 Signs and symptoms (defining characteristics)

3. What are the 3 steps involve in nutrition intervention?

 Selecting
 Planning
 Implementing appropriate actions to meet patient/client/groups nutrition needs.
4. Give at least 2 Age-related changes affecting nutrition and provide the specific nursing strategies.

Age Related Changes Nursing Strategies

Slowed intestinal peristalsis
Lowered glucose tolerance
-Avoid laxative use.
-Eat meals at a regular time.
-Drink prune juice or eat prunes every morning
-Eat more complex carbohydrates.
-Avoid sugar-rich foods

5. What is the purpose of monitoring and evaluation?

-The purpose of nutrition monitoring and evaluation is to figure out how far the nutrition intervention
has progressed and whether the nutrition-related goals/expected results have been met.

6. What are the steps in Nutrition monitoring and evaluation?

 Monitor Progress
 Monitor Outcome
 Evaluate Outcome