To create a new nutritional plan of care for a patient,the nurse needs to do which of the following? (Select all that apply. )

A) Utilize the characteristics of a normal nutritional status.
B) Evaluate previous patient responses to nursing interventions.
C) Exclude established expected outcomes to evaluate patient responses.
D) Design innovative interventions to meet the patient's needs.
E) Follow through with evaluation and counselling.

To create a new nutritional plan of care,the nurse must utilize characteristics of a normal nutritional status to gauge effectiveness of the plan.The nurse must be aware of previous patient responses to nursing interventions for altered nutrition to determine the probability of success.The nurse must use established expected outcomes to evaluate the patient's response to care (e.g. ,patient's weight increases by 0.5 kg/week).The nurse must also be creative when designing innovative nursing interventions to meet the patient's nutritional needs and must demonstrate responsibility by following through with evaluation and counselling to successfully reach goals.