Nutritional Screen: quick look at a few client's to judge a relative risk for nutritional problems. custom designed for a particular population(e.g., pregnant women) or for specific disorder(e.g., cardiac disease) Malnutrition: literally"bad nutrition" any nutritional imbalance including over nutrition in practice, malnutrition usually means undernutrition or an inadequate intake of protein and/or calories that causes loss of fat stores and/or muscle wasting