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DNP-810 Topic 5 DQ 1 Health issues in a clinical setting can be influenced by nutrition
DNP-810 Topic 5 DQ 1 Health issues in a clinical setting can be influenced by nutrition
Topic 5 DQ 1
Jul 7-9, 2022
Health issues in a clinical setting can be influenced by nutrition. Identify a health issue that has been positively influenced by nutrition in your clinic. How does nutrition improve health? How can the doctoral-prepared nurse apply this information in practice? Explain. Support your rationale with a minimum of two scholarly sources.
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Carolyn Smith
Jul 9, 2022, 10:29 PM
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Nutrition has significantly impacted hypertension in patients at our healthcare facility. Patients diagnosed with hypertension in the clinic are referred to the clinical nutritionist who educates them about the DASH diet, which effectively lowers hypertension. The DASH diet encourages a high consumption of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and moderate amounts of low-fat dairy products, lean meat, nuts, seeds, dry beans, fats, and oils. Patients are advised to have low consumption of red meat, salt, cholesterol and saturated fat, sweets, and sweetened drinks (Koehler & Drenowatz, 2019). The DASH diet has significantly reduced the number of patients with pre-hypertension who advance to stages 1 and 2 hypertension. Furthermore, it has helped maintain patients’ blood pressure below 140/90 and promoted weight loss, lowering the incidence of hypertension complications and comorbidities.
Nutrition plays a major role in health and development. Good nutrition is associated with strong immunity and a low risk of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (Shahid & Bishop, 2019). Malnutrition occurs in two forms, undernutrition (due to inadequate intake of nutrients) and overweight (excessive caloric intake). Individuals who observe healthy nutritional practices have a low risk of developing NCDs like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers.
The DNP-nurse can utilize this information in practice by educating patients and their families about healthy dietary practices to promote good nutrition. The nurse can assess patients with malnutrition and offer nutritional counseling on the nutrients they should increase or reduce in their diet to attain healthy nutrition (Koehler & Drenowatz, 2019). Besides, the nurse can apply the information in managing patients with lifestyle diseases by educating them on dietary habits they need to adopt to promote weight loss and achieve optimal blood pressure and blood glucose levels.
References
Koehler, K., & Drenowatz, C. (2019). Integrated Role of Nutrition and Physical Activity for Lifelong Health. Nutrients, 11(7), 1437. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11071437
Shahid, S. M., & Bishop, K. S. (2019). Comprehensive Approaches to Improving Nutrition: Future Prospects. Nutrients, 11(8), 1760. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11081760
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Cassandra Turner-Donegal
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Jul 10, 2022, 6:28 AM
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Hi Carolyn,
Thanks for sharing an informative post. In addition, nutrigenetics which includes genetic markers in nutritional approaches and the use of precision medicine has been excellent methods used in reducing elevated blood pressure in hypertensive patients (Dong, 2018).
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Dong O. M. (2018). Excessive dietary sodium intake and elevated blood pressure: a review of current prevention and management strategies and the emerging role of pharmaconutrigenetics. BMJ nutrition, prevention & health, 1(1), 7–16. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjnph-2018-000004
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Elsie Nlerum
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Jul 10, 2022, 5:22 PM
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Hello Carolyn,
Thank you for your post. I agree with you that nutrition plays a major role in health and development. The global rise of diet related diseases and the double burden of obesity and malnutrition means that it is imperative more than ever that all healthcare professionals can provide at least basic evidence-based nutrition advice. Improving an individual’s diet requires more than just information provision, it requires consistent and long-term support to change and maintain new behaviors. The Doctoral-prepared nurse acknowledges that nutrition plays a crucial role in health and agree that providing nutrition advice is part of their role. However, providing sufficiently detailed nutrition advice that is relevant to a patient’s health goals, useful for the patient, and that results in measurable changes, is not common in practice settings. Nutrition recommendations need to be implemented at an individual level, but social and environmental factors can make it difficult for an individual to make the changes required to achieve these recommendations. Improving an individual’s diet requires more than just information provision; typically, several strategies, such as social support and goal setting, are needed to change and maintain dietary behaviors (Coutinho et al. 2017).
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Coutinho SR, Halset EH, Gasbakk S et al. (2017) Compensatory mechanisms activated with intermittent energy restriction: a randomized control trial. Clinical Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.clnu.2017.04.002.
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Jennifer Murillo
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Jul 11, 2022, 7:56 PM
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Greetings Carolyn! My agreement resides with your assertions concerning how educating patients and their families about healthy dietary practices to promote good nutrition is critical. Moreover, patients can learn healthy, new ways to prepare family favorites and possess an in-depth understanding of how both themselves and their families can benefit from these alterations (Braun et al., 2019).
Teaching patients how to eat fruits and vegetables in season helps offset the cost of buying fresh and helps provide variety. To further illustrate, a healthy diet proves essential for the promotion of both nutrition alongside good health (Braun et al., 2019). First, it protects you against chronic non-communicable diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer (Braun et al., 2019). Eating various foods and consuming less salt, sugars, and saturated and industrially-produced trans-fats are essential for a healthy diet (Braun et al., 2019). Healthy meal prep alongside eating together at meal times aids children in learning to enjoy a variety of foods. This simple goal can be accomplished by purchasing and serving more vegetables alongside fruits and vegetables.
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Braun, B., Grünewald, M., Adam-Paffrath, R., Wesselborg, B., Wilm, S., Schendel, L., … & Rotthoff, T. (2019). Impact of interprofessional education for medical and nursing students on the nutritional management of in-patients. GMS journal for medical education, 36(2).
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