While admitting your new patient, you do a spiritual assessment. At this time the patient indicates that he or she does not eat meat. What would this be considered?
A) A personal choice
B) A religious practice
C) A risk for malnutrition
D) A lifestyle choice
Ans: B
Feedback: The nurse has collected the dietary preferences during the spiritual assessment, so the patient holds a religious belief that forbids the intake of meat. A spiritual assessment may involve asking, is religion or God important to you?, or are there any religious practices that are important to you? The other options are incorrect because the dietary practice of the patient, when told to the nurse during the spiritual assessment, is not a personal or lifestyle choice and it is not a risk for malnutrition.
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