Test your basic knowledge |

NCLEX Nutrition

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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 much sodium may be consumed per day?






2. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






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






5. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






7. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






8. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






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






11. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






12. What function is vitamin A?






13. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






15. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






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






18. How many calories/gram is protein?






19. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






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






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






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






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






25. What does DASH stand for?






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






27. When does BMR increase?






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






29. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






30. What is normal albumin levels?






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






32. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






33. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






34. What is the function of vitamin E?






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






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






37. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






38. When does BMR decrease?






39. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






40. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






42. What type of people need extra protein?






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






44. What foods have high quality protein?






45. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






47. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






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






50. What is RDA of protein?