Nutritional Care and Professional Ethics
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What is a central question raised by challenging and extreme situations in nutritional care?

  • Whether nutritional care is unnecessary in extreme situations
  • Whether nutritional care is a legitimate form of care in medical practice (correct)
  • How to avoid providing nutritional care in such situations
  • How to restrict access to nutritional care in challenging situations

    • What is an example of a challenging situation mentioned in the text that questions the limits and ethical values in nutritional care?

  • Day-to-day dietary counseling
  • Palliative care (correct)
  • Basic medical treatment
  • Routine check-up

    • What does the role of health care professionals involve when disease impacts nutritional status?

  • Assisting the person to cover the individual's need for nutrients and support metabolic perturbations by nutritional care (correct)
  • Prescribing medication to address the nutritional deficiency
  • Encouraging the person to seek alternative therapies for nutritional support
  • Advising the person to rely solely on natural oral intake of food and liquids

    • What can help understand and analyze the ethical foundations of the practice of clinical nutrition?

    <p>Ethics of Care</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does nutrition therapy as a medical intervention require according to the text?

    <p>An indication and a therapeutic goal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Nutrition therapy is not considered a medical intervention.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Nutritional care ethics only applies to certain cultural societies.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness, such as cancer or heart failure.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The Ethics of Care cannot help to understand and analyze the ethical foundations of the practice of clinical nutrition.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The role of health care professionals is to assist the person in order to cover the individual's need for nutrients and support the metabolic perturbations by nutritional care.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

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