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Explain the components of a nutritional assessment. What important subjective and
objective assessment findings will assist a nurse in developing a nutritional plan?
RNs play a vital role when it comes to assessing nutritional needs of
patients because they monitor, educate, incorporate, and interact with patients
that need nutritional care and assessment. There are many important
components making nutritional plan and completing clients’ nutritional
assessment such as obtaining anthropometrics information, biochemical data,
clinical data, dietary data, evaluating subjective and objective data, considering
client’s culture, religion and many more. Anthropometrics used for determining
client muscle, body fat percentage which is an objective measurements.
Anthropometrics can be used for assessing client weight changes, check growth
rate in younger clients and so on. It includes client body mass index, body frame
size, height, weight and skin fold measurements. Also, biochemical data can be
used to check client nutritional status by obtaining client blood, stool, urine, nail,
and hair samples. Additionally, clinical data includes client medical history,
diseases, past diagnostic procedures current meds, supplements, and treatment.
In addition, dietary data involves client dietary intake and obtaining information
about client food allergy, food frequency intake, and so on. Lastly, RNs should
always complete a comprehensive assessment because a client physical
appearance does not indicate that client is not malnourished.
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Explain the importance of macronutrients in maintaining nutritional health. Describe
the pathophysiology of one disorder that affects the normal metabolism of a
macronutrient.