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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is normal albumin levels?






2. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






3. What type of people need extra protein?






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






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






6. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






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






8. What is normal BMI?






9. When does BMR increase?






10. Fats can lead to some medical problems






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






12. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






14. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






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






17. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






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






20. What are healthy sources of fats?






21. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






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






23. How many calories/gram is protein?






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






25. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






26. What is RDA of protein?






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






28. What function is vitamin D?






29. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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






31. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






32. Sources of fats






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






34. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






35. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






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






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






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






39. What does DASH stand for?






40. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






41. What foods have high quality protein?






42. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






43. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






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






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






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






48. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






49. Name six sources of grains






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