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NCLEX Nutrition

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






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






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






4. What is RDA of protein?






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






6. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






8. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






9. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






11. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






12. How many calories/gram is protein?






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






14. Sources of fats






15. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






16. What foods have high quality protein?






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






18. What does DASH stand for?






19. What is normal BMI?






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






21. What function is vitamin A?






22. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






23. When does BMR decrease?






24. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






26. What function is vitamin D?






27. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






29. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






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






32. Name six sources of grains






33. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






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






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






37. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






38. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






39. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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






41. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






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






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






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






46. What is normal albumin levels?






47. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






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






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






50. Where can you get more vitamin D?