Ethical Values in Nutritional Care

Competence is not considered an ethical value in the context of nutritional care.

Providing nutrition interventions only involves providing food that the patient cannot or will not eat.

The Ethics of Care focuses solely on the physical treatment and cure of patients.

Taking care of a patient involves only the physical aspects of treatment.

Prescribing nutritional therapy does not require understanding the personalized nutritional requirements and metabolic perturbations in patients.

Nutritional therapy is only capable of preventing malnutrition and helping recover from disease.

Under certain circumstances, the decision not to feed an ill patient may be the best decision ethically.

The Latin American Declaration on the Right to Nutritional Care is known as the 'Vienna Declaration'.

The principles approach in nutritional care promotes the values of justice and equity in nutritional care.

Nutritional care as a human right is not considered a strategy to give visibility and draw the attention of public policy makers on the need to promote access to nutritional therapy.