If a nutrition screening tool has a high specificity, this will most likely mean that:

If you wanted to quickly assess whether 5,000 study participants regularly consume foods high in calcium, which of the following dietary assessment methods would you choose?

You have a 35 year old patient whose body weight is 82 kg.  Which of the following best approximates this patient’s fluid needs?

Recall that RC is on Digoxin.  All of the following are true of this drug except:  

A tube feeding that is high in fat may be appropriate for a patient with

Which of the following methods would be the most accurate indicator of protein status of a critically ill patient?

How would you classify RC’s percent usual body weight?

Consuming grapefruit juice with the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin:

The next 3 questions are based on this scenario: GV, a 49 yobf, has acute pancreatitis with severe malabsorption.  Parenteral nutrition is initiated via a PICC line.  She receives a 7% amino acid, 25% dextrose solution running at 82 ml/hr, and 250 ml/day of 10% lipid emulsion.  After two weeks, her pancreatitis is starting to resolve, and she begins to take sips of clear liquids (broth, apple juice, jello and sorbet).  She tolerates this well and gradually advances back to a regular diet.

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