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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






2. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






3. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






4. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






5. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






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






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






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






17. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






19. Name six sources of grains






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






21. Fats can lead to some medical problems






22. The higher the BMR a client has --






23. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






24. What type of people need extra protein?






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






26. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






27. When does BMR increase?






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






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






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






31. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






32. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






33. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






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






36. How many calories/gram is protein?






37. Sources of fats






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






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






40. What is normal albumin levels?






41. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






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






43. What function is vitamin A?






44. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






46. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






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






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






50. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?