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By the end you should be able to: Screen for malnutrition with the Canadian Nutrition Screening Tool and state what a positive screen triggers.
NCLEX-RN
NCLEX-RN
By the end you should be able to: - Screen for malnutrition with the Canadian Nutrition Screening Tool and state what a positive screen triggers. - Position, set up and assist a patient at a meal, and recognize when the meal must stop. - Match a diet or drink to an International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) level and describe how the level is tested. - Verify feeding tube position before use, keep the head of the bed elevated, and explain why routine gastric residual checks have fallen out of favour. - Identify patients at risk for refeeding syndrome, and name the electrolytes, vitamin and vital-sign checks that protect them. - Decide whether a medication can be crushed, opened or given through a tube, and know who to ask when the answer is unclear. - Anticipate drug-food interactions (warfarin and vitamin K, MAOIs and tyramine, grapefruit, enteral formula and phenytoin, soy and levothyroxine) and drug effects that reduce intake. - State what can be delegated to an unregulated care provider (UCP), what the RN keeps, and who is called, and...
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