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NCLEX Nutrition

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






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






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






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






6. Sources of fats






7. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






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






9. What foods have high quality protein?






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






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






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






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






14. What function is vitamin A?






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






16. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






17. Where can you get more vitamin D?






18. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






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






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






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






23. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






25. What are healthy sources of fats?






26. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






27. What is normal BMI?






28. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






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






31. The higher the BMR a client has --






32. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






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






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






35. What type of people need extra protein?






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






37. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






39. What is the function of vitamin E?






40. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






41. Name six sources of grains






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






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






44. When does BMR decrease?






45. Fats can lead to some medical problems






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






47. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






48. How many calories/gram is protein?






49. What is normal albumin levels?






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