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NCLEX Nutrition

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






2. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






3. What is the function of vitamin E?






4. What foods have high quality protein?






5. What are healthy sources of fats?






6. How many calories/gram is protein?






7. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






8. Fats can lead to some medical problems






9. What function is vitamin A?






10. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






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






13. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






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






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






16. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






17. What function is vitamin D?






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






19. Sources of fats






20. What type of people need extra protein?






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






22. When does BMR increase?






23. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






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






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






26. What is RDA of protein?






27. What is normal albumin levels?






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






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






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






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






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






33. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






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






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






36. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






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






38. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






39. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






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






42. What is normal BMI?






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






44. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






45. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






47. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






48. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






50. Name six sources of grains