While talking with the students on the unit, the nursing instructor explains the goals of the PN. What is one goal the instructor might cite?
A) Improve nutritional status
B) Maintain fluid balance
C) Shorten hospital stay
D) Establish negative nitrogen balance
Ans: A
Feedback: The goals of PN are to improve nutritional status, establish a positive nitrogen balance, maintain muscle mass, promote weight maintenance or gain, and enhance the healing process. Maintaining fluid balance and shortening hospital time are not goals of PN.
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