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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • 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. What are healthy sources of fats?






2. What is normal BMI?






3. How many calories/gram is protein?






4. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






6. Name six sources of grains






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






8. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






9. What is RDA of protein?






10. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






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






13. When does BMR decrease?






14. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






15. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






17. What is the function of vitamin C?






18. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






20. What function is vitamin A?






21. What type of people need extra protein?






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






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






24. What function is vitamin D?






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






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






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






28. What is normal albumin levels?






29. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






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






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






33. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






34. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






35. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






36. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






37. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






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






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






41. Fats can lead to some medical problems






42. Where can you get more vitamin D?






43. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






44. What foods have high quality protein?






45. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






46. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






48. What does DASH stand for?






49. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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