Nursing 1180A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Health Canada, Medical History, Dehydration
29 Jun 2016
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Canada"s food guide: published by health canada, designed to provide guidelines for nutritional intake, emphasis on encouraging variety and reducing the intake of fats, sugars, and sodium. Some cultures believe in the healing properties of foods. Food practices may be based on religious beliefs, such as fasting or abstaining from eating certain foods. Assessment of nutritional status often delegated to the nurse. Physical assessment: body type, general appearance, swallowing, elimination, body mass index (bmi, weight calculations. Common laboratory testing: serum proteins, hemoglobin and hematocrit, lymphocyte count, creatinine excretion, nitrogen balance, lipid measurements. Vit d: loss of deep tendon reflexes of lower extremities. Zinc: dryness and ease of plucking. Skin: acneiform lesions, follicular keratosis, xerosis (dry skin), ecchymosis, intradermal petechial, erythema, scrotal dermatitis, angular palpebritis. Reasons older adults are at risk for altered nutrition. Reduced sunlight exposure: less going outside. You meet parents who are concerned with a 10 year old obese child.
