NUR 382 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Kwashiorkor - Answers - primarily a protein deficiency characterized by edema, growth
failure, and muscle wasting
Malnutrition - Answers - May mean any nutrition disorder but usually refers to long-term
nutritional inadequacies or excess
Marasmic Kwashiorkor - Answers - Combination of chronic energy deficit and chronic or
acute protein deficiency
Marsamus - Answers - Results from energy and protein deficiency, manifesting with
significant loss of body weight, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissue mass, but with
serum protein concentrations relatively intact
Obesity/ BMI - Answers - Underweight = BMI <18.5 kg/m2
Normal = BMI 18.5-24.9 kg/m2
Overweight = BMI 25-29.9 kg/m2
Obese = BMI >30 kg/m2
Severely obese = BMI > 40 kg/m2
Nutritional status - Answers - The balance between nutrient intake and nutrient
requirements is described as
The recommendation depends of the BMI of the mother at the start of the pregnancy -
Answers - You are providing health promotion teaching for a newly pregnant woman
and recommend which of the following weight gain parameters for a healthy pregnancy?
Weight and nutrition intake history - Answers - You obtain this data when screening
patients for nutritional status
Decrease in height - Answers - Which is a normal expected change with aging?
As a questionnaire or interview of everything eaten within the last 24 hours - Answers -
A 24 hour recall of dietary intake is used
Nutritional deficiency - Answers - Mary, a 15-year-old has come for a school physical.
During the interview, you learn menarche has not occurred and the BMI is 17. You
expect
65-year-old widower who visits a senior center with a meal program 5 days per week -
Answers - Which older adult is at lowest risk for alteration in nutritional status
, Measure arm span - Answers - The examiner is completing an initial assessment for a
patient admitted to a long-term care facility. The patient is unable to stand for a
measurement of height. To obtain this important info, the examiner would?
Waist circumference at 43 inches - Answers - Which assessment finding indicates a
patient at nutrition risk?
Low weight for height - Answers - Marasmus is often characterized by
30.0 to 39.9 kg/m2 - Answers - Which BMI category in adults is indicative of obesity?
Many drugs can interact with nutrients and impair their digestion, absorption,
metabolism, or uptake. - Answers - Why should you ask about the use of medications
when assessing a patient's nutritional status
Aneurysm - Answers - defect or sac formed by dilation in artery wall due to
atherosclerosis, trauma, or congenital defect
Cecum - Answers - First part of large intestine
Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation - Answers - Sequence of techniques
used during an examination of the abdomen:
venous pattern, peristaltic waves, and abdominal contour - Answers - What can be
noted through inspection of the abdomen
Liver, pancreas, ascending colon - Answers - RUQ tenderness may indicate pathology
of the
High-pitched, tinkling, rushing - Answers - Hyperactive bowel sounds
5 full minutes - Answers - The absence of bowel sounds is established after listening
for:
aortic, renal, iliac, and femoral - Answers - Auscultation of the abdomen may reveal
bruits of the _____ arteries:
Spleen - Answers - The LUQ contains
Silvery white - Answers - A woman has striae on the abdomen, which color indicates
*long-standing* striae?
Bowel sounds are normally present here - Answers - Auscultating the abdomen starts at
the RLQ because
ANSWERS
Kwashiorkor - Answers - primarily a protein deficiency characterized by edema, growth
failure, and muscle wasting
Malnutrition - Answers - May mean any nutrition disorder but usually refers to long-term
nutritional inadequacies or excess
Marasmic Kwashiorkor - Answers - Combination of chronic energy deficit and chronic or
acute protein deficiency
Marsamus - Answers - Results from energy and protein deficiency, manifesting with
significant loss of body weight, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissue mass, but with
serum protein concentrations relatively intact
Obesity/ BMI - Answers - Underweight = BMI <18.5 kg/m2
Normal = BMI 18.5-24.9 kg/m2
Overweight = BMI 25-29.9 kg/m2
Obese = BMI >30 kg/m2
Severely obese = BMI > 40 kg/m2
Nutritional status - Answers - The balance between nutrient intake and nutrient
requirements is described as
The recommendation depends of the BMI of the mother at the start of the pregnancy -
Answers - You are providing health promotion teaching for a newly pregnant woman
and recommend which of the following weight gain parameters for a healthy pregnancy?
Weight and nutrition intake history - Answers - You obtain this data when screening
patients for nutritional status
Decrease in height - Answers - Which is a normal expected change with aging?
As a questionnaire or interview of everything eaten within the last 24 hours - Answers -
A 24 hour recall of dietary intake is used
Nutritional deficiency - Answers - Mary, a 15-year-old has come for a school physical.
During the interview, you learn menarche has not occurred and the BMI is 17. You
expect
65-year-old widower who visits a senior center with a meal program 5 days per week -
Answers - Which older adult is at lowest risk for alteration in nutritional status
, Measure arm span - Answers - The examiner is completing an initial assessment for a
patient admitted to a long-term care facility. The patient is unable to stand for a
measurement of height. To obtain this important info, the examiner would?
Waist circumference at 43 inches - Answers - Which assessment finding indicates a
patient at nutrition risk?
Low weight for height - Answers - Marasmus is often characterized by
30.0 to 39.9 kg/m2 - Answers - Which BMI category in adults is indicative of obesity?
Many drugs can interact with nutrients and impair their digestion, absorption,
metabolism, or uptake. - Answers - Why should you ask about the use of medications
when assessing a patient's nutritional status
Aneurysm - Answers - defect or sac formed by dilation in artery wall due to
atherosclerosis, trauma, or congenital defect
Cecum - Answers - First part of large intestine
Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation - Answers - Sequence of techniques
used during an examination of the abdomen:
venous pattern, peristaltic waves, and abdominal contour - Answers - What can be
noted through inspection of the abdomen
Liver, pancreas, ascending colon - Answers - RUQ tenderness may indicate pathology
of the
High-pitched, tinkling, rushing - Answers - Hyperactive bowel sounds
5 full minutes - Answers - The absence of bowel sounds is established after listening
for:
aortic, renal, iliac, and femoral - Answers - Auscultation of the abdomen may reveal
bruits of the _____ arteries:
Spleen - Answers - The LUQ contains
Silvery white - Answers - A woman has striae on the abdomen, which color indicates
*long-standing* striae?
Bowel sounds are normally present here - Answers - Auscultating the abdomen starts at
the RLQ because
