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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 meat/beans should be eaten?






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






3. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






4. What is the function of vitamin C?






5. Sources of fats






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






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






8. What does DASH stand for?






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






10. What are healthy sources of fats?






11. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






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






13. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






14. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






16. What is normal BMI?






17. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






18. What function is vitamin D?






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






20. Name six sources of grains






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






22. Where can you get more vitamin D?






23. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






24. What is RDA of protein?






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






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






27. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






29. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






30. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






32. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






33. When does BMR decrease?






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






35. What type of people need extra protein?






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






37. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






45. What function is vitamin A?






46. How many calories/gram is protein?






47. When does BMR increase?






48. What foods have high quality protein?






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






50. What is the function of vitamin E?