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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






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






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






4. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






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






6. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






16. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






17. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






18. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






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






20. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






21. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






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






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






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






26. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






27. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






28. What is normal BMI?






29. What function is vitamin A?






30. What is the function of vitamin E?






31. What type of people need extra protein?






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






33. What is normal albumin levels?






34. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






36. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






37. What function is vitamin D?






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






39. Name six sources of grains






40. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






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






43. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






44. What is the function of vitamin C?






45. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






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






47. Fats can lead to some medical problems






48. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






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