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Question:
The nurse is delivering dinner trays to patients under the care of a colleague due to being short-staffed on her medical-surgical floor. She comes across a tray that is not assigned to a patient, but is ordered as a mechanical soft diet. There are four patients who still do not have dinner trays. Which of these patients would likely need this type of diet?
A
a patient who is postoperative for a total thyroidectomy
explanation
Patients who are ordered a mechanical soft diet usually have poor dentition, swallowing disorders, intestinal strictures, and/or are postoperative for face/neck surgery. A full liquid diet is indicated for gastritis. A clear liquid diet is indicated prior to a colonoscopy. And a patient in renal failure on dialysis may require a low sodium, phosphorous, and protein diet.
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