WorksheetsNutritional Care for Upper GI Cancer
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 18mins
Your patient is experiencing severe dysphagia and odynophagia due to unresectable esophageal tumour. Nutrition assessment that you should do for him is
bone mass
dietary record
laboratory result
anthropometric measurement
Factors that might affect Mr E nutritional status post gastrectomy is
pain
loss of digestive enzymes
malabsorption of nutrients
resection a portion of the gaster
Which of the following is appropriate for a patient who has difficulty in swallowing foods but has functional gastrointestinal tract?
Nasoenteric feeding
Gastrostomy feeding
Oral liquid supplements
Total parenteral nutrition
The nurse is providing discharge education to a client following partial gastractomy. Which measure will the nurse instruct the client to follow to prevent dumping syndrome?
Avoid taking fluids with meals
Limit food high in sugar and candies
Rest or lie down 15 minutes after a meal
Eat 3 meals per day to avoid over loading of stomach
Nursing interventions that you need to apply in preventing feeding tube clogged include
use liquid form drugs
use acidic fluids to flush tube
flush the tube with 30cc of water after feeding
use dishwashing liquid and water to wash the tube
Calculate the body mass index (BMI) for your patient whose height is 167 cm and weight is 70 kg
24.22
25.10
34.08
41.91
Types of nutritional feeding route you will consider for your patient with gastric cancer is
gastric tube
jejunostomy
nasogastric tube
total parenteral nutrition
Your explanation to a patient plan for enteral tube is
convenience to bring home
indicated for short term nutritional support
associated with more metabolic complications
maintaining the normal stimulation of digestive enzyme
During procedure of nasogastric tube insertion, your patient begins to cough and has difficulty in breathing. Your nursing action is
continue with the tube insertion
notify the physician immediately
remove the entire tube and reinsert when the respiratory distress subsides
pull out half of the tube and reinsert when the respiratory distress subsides
