The nurse is preparing to assess the nutritional status of an 80-year old patient in a long-term care facility. What screening tool would best suit this purpose?
a. The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)
b. Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)
c. Anthropometric measurements
d. A daily nutrition intake log
B
The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is specifically designed to meet to the needs of geriatric patients in long term care facilities. The MUST tool is particularly designed for assessing older adults in clinical settings, including acute care. Including anthropomorphic measurements might be part of an assessment as might information from the nutrition intake log , but neither would provide a complete picture in this case.
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1. Make good notes and document care during the next working shift. 2. Anticipate care to be administered during downtime and document before the computers go down. 3. Make notes and document all care as soon as the computers come back up. 4. Use the downtime documentation described in facility policy.
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nonambulatory patients every 2 hours, and report complaints or needs of the patients to the RN. Periodically during the day the RN checked with the aide to determine whether the aide was having difficulty in completing the tasks. The RN was frequently in patient rooms observing and performing their own duties. What is this an example of? A) Improper delegation B) Not trusting an employee C) Effective delegation D) Micromanagement
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a. Grade I c. Grade III b. Grade II d. Grade IV