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NCLEX Nutrition

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






2. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






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






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






6. When does BMR increase?






7. The higher the BMR a client has --






8. When does BMR decrease?






9. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






10. What function is vitamin A?






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






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






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






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






15. What is RDA of protein?






16. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






17. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






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






20. Name six sources of grains






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






22. What is normal albumin levels?






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






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






25. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






26. How many calories/gram is protein?






27. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






29. Sources of fats






30. What is normal BMI?






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






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






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






34. What is the function of vitamin E?






35. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






36. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






37. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






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






40. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






41. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






43. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






44. What foods have high quality protein?






45. What does DASH stand for?






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






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






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






49. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






50. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram