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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






2. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






3. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






4. The higher the BMR a client has --






5. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






6. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






7. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






8. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






9. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






10. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






11. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






12. What does DASH stand for?






13. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






14. What is the function of vitamin C?






15. What is normal BMI?






16. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






17. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






18. What is normal albumin levels?






19. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






20. What function is vitamin A?






21. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






22. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






23. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






24. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






25. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






26. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






27. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






28. How many calories/gram is protein?






29. What function is vitamin D?






30. Where can you get more vitamin D?






31. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






32. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






33. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






34. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






35. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






36. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






37. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






38. Fats can lead to some medical problems






39. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






40. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






41. What are healthy sources of fats?






42. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






43. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






44. Name six sources of grains






45. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






46. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






47. Sources of fats






48. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






49. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






50. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?