A 72-year-old patient is admitted to the hospital with a medical diagnosis of intestinal failure. Which intervention should the nurse include in the plan of care to deliver nutritional needs?
a. Enteral
b. Parenteral
c. A combination of enteral and parenteral
d. Oral
B
In situations where partial or complete intestinal failure has occurred and oral nutrition or enteral tube feeding is not possible, parenteral nutrition (PN) is the therapy of choice. When a patient's gastrointestinal (GI) tract is functional, clinicians assess the patient and choose the best method of delivering nutritional needs, which may include enteral feeding, parenteral feeding, or a combination of both.
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