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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






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






3. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






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






6. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






7. What function is vitamin A?






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






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






10. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






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






12. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






13. When does BMR increase?






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






15. What is the function of vitamin E?






16. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






17. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






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






19. What foods have high quality protein?






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






21. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






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






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






25. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






26. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






27. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






28. What is RDA of protein?






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






30. Name six sources of grains






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






32. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






34. What is normal albumin levels?






35. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






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






37. Fats can lead to some medical problems






38. When does BMR decrease?






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






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






41. What is normal BMI?






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






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






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






45. What type of people need extra protein?






46. Sources of fats






47. The higher the BMR a client has --






48. What function is vitamin D?






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






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