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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






3. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






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






6. What is normal albumin levels?






7. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






8. Where can you get more vitamin D?






9. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






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






11. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






12. When does BMR increase?






13. What is RDA of protein?






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






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






16. What type of people need extra protein?






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






18. What does DASH stand for?






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






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






21. What are healthy sources of fats?






22. When does BMR decrease?






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






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






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






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






27. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






29. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






31. Sources of fats






32. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






33. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






34. How many calories/gram is protein?






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






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






37. What function is vitamin D?






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






39. Name six sources of grains






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






41. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






42. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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






44. What is normal BMI?






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






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






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






48. What function is vitamin A?






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






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