Answer to Question 1
Correct Answer: 1,2,3,4
Rationale 1: Interventions to improve a client's appetite include selecting small portions.
Rationale 2: Interventions to improve a client's appetite include avoiding unpleasant treatments immediately before or after a meal.
Rationale 3: Interventions to improve a client's appetite include ensuring a clean environment that is free of unpleasant sights and odors.
Rationale 4: Interventions to improve a client's appetite include encouraging oral hygiene before a meal.
Rationale 5: Interventions to improve a client's appetite include providing medication for pain or other symptoms before a meal, and not after a meal.
Answer to Question 2
Correct Answer: 1,2,4,5
Rationale 1: Client teaching for underweight clients should include a discussion of the factors contributing to inadequate nutrition and weight loss.
Rationale 2: Client teaching for underweight clients should include a discussion of ways to manage, minimize, or alter the factors contributing to malnourishment.
Rationale 3: Client teaching for overweight clients should include the principles of a well-balanced diet and high- and low- calorie foods.
Rationale 4: Client teaching for underweight clients should include information about community agencies that can assist in providing food.
Rationale 5: Client teaching for underweight clients should include information about ways to increase caloric intake.
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