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NCLEX Nutrition

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






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






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






4. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






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






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






8. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. What function is vitamin A?






17. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






18. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






19. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






20. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






22. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






24. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






26. What function is vitamin D?






27. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






28. What type of people need extra protein?






29. Where can you get more vitamin D?






30. What is normal BMI?






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






32. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






34. Fats can lead to some medical problems






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






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






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






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






39. What is RDA of protein?






40. When does BMR decrease?






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






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






43. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






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






46. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






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






48. When does BMR increase?






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






50. What is the function of vitamin C?