Nutrition Essentials for Nursing
Practice
Nutrition in Nursing
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Nutrition - Implications for
health care workers
 Keeping ourselves healthy
 Field is rapidly changing and growing
 Clients need information to make better
food choices
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Nutrition affects many diseases
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Food Choices for your client
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Current Influences on Nutrition
 Changing society
 Changing lifestyle of the American family
 Changing consumer
 Influencing in health care
• including the client as a member
• wellness programs
• HMO’s
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Dietary Guidelines
 Eat less cholesterol and fat especially
saturated fat
– recommendations
– 30% of total calories come from fat
– <10% of total calories come from saturated fat
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Dietary Guidelines
 Eat a variety of foods
 Maintain healthy body weight
 Eat more vegetables, grains and breads
 Eat less sugar and sodium
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The Food Guide Pyramid
 The pyramid has variety, emphasizes
moderation and proportion
 Largest part of the pyramid is bread, cereal,
rice and pasta (6-11 servings)
 Next is fruit and vegetable, fruit (2-4
servings) vegetable (3-5 servings)
 Then milk, meats, poultry, fish, nuts and
beans (2-3 servings)
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 Lastly fats, oils and sweets - use sparingly
Recommended Daily Allowances
RDA
 Guide as to how much nutrients the body
needs
 Developed during a war time nutrition
program
 Is the only guide that gives us specific
nutrient, calorie recommendations based on
age and sex
 Evaluates the nutritional value food has
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Food Pyramid
 Lets look at the 2011 food pyramid.
 What do you see?
www.mypyramid.gov
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Start Reading Labels
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Nutrition density
A food that has a high nutrition
density has more nutrients per calorie
than a food with low density.
Example: an orange vs. orange
sherbet - there are more vitamins in
the orange than in the sherbet
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Factors that Influence Diet
 Culture
 Economics
 Age
 Media
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Nutrition: The Nursing Process
 An organized plan for problem solving
 Has 5 Steps
– Assessment
– Nursing Diagnosis
– Planning
– Nursing Interventions
– Evaluation
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Nursing Assessment
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Gathering Data
– Objective - what you see and hear
– Subjective - what comes from what the client
tells you
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Objective data?
Subjective data?
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Nursing Diagnosis
 Involves interpreting data
 Is a framework for the plan of care that
follows
 Example for nutrition
– Alteration in Nutrition: less than body
requirements
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Planning
 What are your goals?
 What should you do for your client?
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Nursing Interventions
 Refers to nursing action
– client teaching
– what are you doing to help your client get better
 Is goal directed
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Nursing Evaluation
 What happened to my client?
– Did my interventions work?
 What is the outcome?
 Were the goals met?
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The Nursing Process
 Assessment
 Nursing Diagnosis
 Planning
 Nursing Interventions
 Evaluation
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The Nursing Process and You
 Assessment – Help too much work, I’m
already overwhelmed!
 Nursing Diagnosis - Anxiety related to time
management
 Intervention - Learning Assessment Tool
 Evaluation – Finding out what type of
learner am I and how best to use my time
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