A client has not eaten since admission to the long-term care facility 2 days ago. Which is the best intervention for the nurse to prevent malnutrition in this client?
1. Make a diet request to the provider for full liquids.
2. Ask the client's daughter why the client will not eat.
3. Remind the client that nutrition is essential to health.
4. Assess the client for possible barriers to self-feeding.
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4. The nurse gathers additional information by using the nursing process to prevent malnutrition for a new client in the long-term care facility. Identifying barriers to self-feeding with objective and subjective data is the best intervention because the nurse gathers valuable nutritional information, including muscle function, teeth, cog-nition, and client preferences.
1. Requesting a diet change is premature and not based on assessment data.
2. Asking the daughter for information reveals the daughter's opinion, anecdotal in-formation, and, possibly, biased observations about the client.
3. Reminding the client about nutrition may be a useless intervention if the client's cognition is low, if the client has a sensory or communication disorder, or the client is depressed. In addition, the client can interpret this as an insult to the client's intel-ligence.
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