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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What function is vitamin D?






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






3. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






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






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






6. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






7. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






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






9. Name six sources of grains






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






11. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






12. When does BMR decrease?






13. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






14. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






15. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






16. How many calories/gram is protein?






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






18. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






19. What is the function of vitamin E?






20. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






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






22. What does DASH stand for?






23. What function is vitamin A?






24. Fats can lead to some medical problems






25. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






27. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






28. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






29. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






30. What type of people need extra protein?






31. The higher the BMR a client has --






32. What foods have high quality protein?






33. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






35. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






36. Where can you get more vitamin D?






37. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






38. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






39. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






40. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






41. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






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






43. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






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






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






47. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






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






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






50. When does BMR increase?







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