NUR 1172 EXAM 1 NUTRITION STUDY GUIDE
NUR1172- Nutritional Principles in Nursing Exam #1 Study Guide
I highly recommend that you become familiar with all of the key terms in
your text from Chapters 2, 3, 4, & 5.
Read the objectives at the beginning of Modules 1 & 2 and put the answers
to them in your own words- try teaching your study partner, your kid, your
boyfriend, or your cat. You have to be able to understand the concept to
teach it. J
Explain nutrition, diet and their impact on health.
Nutrition is considered an adequate, well balanced diet combined with
regular physical activity that gives your body needed energy to stay
healthy. Good nutrition also provides the chemicals and other cellular
resources to help you feel good and keep you disease-free.
Describe the processes of digestion, absorption and metabolism.
Read the Blackboard lesson content in each module, as it sometimes
contains important info not highlighted by your book.
Read and thoroughly understand the topics discussed in the DRI lecture.
Review the AMDR ranges (percentages)
Know the RDA for macronutrients (grams).
Digestion
How does digestion occur?
Where does it start and end?
What organs are involved, and what are their functions in digestion?
Which organs use mechanical processes?
Which use chemical processes, and what are those chemicals called?
Absorption
What happens after digestion has occurred?
What substances are absorbed in each organ along the GI tract?
NUR1172- Nutritional Principles in Nursing Exam #1 Study Guide
I highly recommend that you become familiar with all of the key terms in
your text from Chapters 2, 3, 4, & 5.
Read the objectives at the beginning of Modules 1 & 2 and put the answers
to them in your own words- try teaching your study partner, your kid, your
boyfriend, or your cat. You have to be able to understand the concept to
teach it. J
Explain nutrition, diet and their impact on health.
Nutrition is considered an adequate, well balanced diet combined with
regular physical activity that gives your body needed energy to stay
healthy. Good nutrition also provides the chemicals and other cellular
resources to help you feel good and keep you disease-free.
Describe the processes of digestion, absorption and metabolism.
Read the Blackboard lesson content in each module, as it sometimes
contains important info not highlighted by your book.
Read and thoroughly understand the topics discussed in the DRI lecture.
Review the AMDR ranges (percentages)
Know the RDA for macronutrients (grams).
Digestion
How does digestion occur?
Where does it start and end?
What organs are involved, and what are their functions in digestion?
Which organs use mechanical processes?
Which use chemical processes, and what are those chemicals called?
Absorption
What happens after digestion has occurred?
What substances are absorbed in each organ along the GI tract?
