A toddler with a possible failure to thrive diagnosis is brought ...

[ap345]

A toddler with a possible failure to thrive diagnosis is brought into the high-risk clinic. What degree of growth decline is an objective growth measure for defining FTT? Identify the medical or environmental factors that may cause FTT.

Question 2

The nurse reviews the dietitian's note that includes a specific nutrition problem, its etiology, and evidence of the problem. The nurse recognizes this as the:
 
 a. nursing diagnosis.
  b. physician's diet order.
  c. hospital diet manual.
  d. nutrition diagnosis.

[Joy Chen]

Answer to Question 1

Generally, FTT is suspected when a child's growth declines more than two growth percentiles, placing the child near or below the lowest percentile in weight-for-age, weight-for-length, and/or BMI. FTT may result from a complex interplay of medical and environmental factors, such as digestive problems such as gastrointestinal reflux or celiac disease, asthma or breathing problems, neurological conditions such as seizures, or pediatric AIDS.

Answer to Question 2

d

[ap345]

Both answers were spot on, thank you once again

[Joy Chen]

Great! Please up vote