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NCLEX Nutrition
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nursing
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health-fitness-nutrition
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. What function is vitamin A?
vision - bone - tissue growth -immune and reproductive function
carrots and sweet potatoes
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
5.5 ounces/day
2. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?
can consume more calories without weight gain
cream cheese - cream or butter
2.5 cups
transferrin
3. How much grains are to be eaten per day?
protein
review of systems
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
6 oz. a day
4. How much sodium may be consumed per day?
one tspn salt or less
protein
dairy and fortified foods
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
5. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value
diet recall
albumin levels
decrease in total lymphocyte count
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
6. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
apple is higher risk than a pear
rickets - osteomalacia
folic acid - orange juice - meat - green leafy veg
7. What is normal BMI?
18-25
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
300 cal/day increase
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
8. Sources of fats
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
18-25
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
vision - bone - tissue growth -immune and reproductive function
9. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?
diet recall
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
fats
milk - enriched grains
10. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
TPN total parenteral nutrition
folic acid - orange juice - meat - green leafy veg
11. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?
vegetable oil - peanuts - margarine
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
18-25
atrophy or wasting of muscle
12. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?
dietary approach to stop hypertension
milk - enriched grains
day week or month
vitamin K
13. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram
dietary approach to stop hypertension
fats
essential amino acids
B and C
14. Where can you get more vitamin D?
dairy and fortified foods
decrease in total lymphocyte count
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
6 oz. a day
15. What are healthy sources of fats?
day week or month
trans fatty acid
review of systems
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
16. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs
rickets - osteomalacia
albumin levels
TPN total parenteral nutrition
18-25
17. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
starches - sugars - and cellulose
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
18. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?
pregnant women or elderly
low albumin levels < 3.4
5.5 ounces/day
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
19. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?
TPN total parenteral nutrition
one week period
protein
dietary approach to stop hypertension
20. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
protein and fat
21. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
diet recall
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
fat soluble vitamins
22. How much meat/beans should be eaten?
5.5 ounces/day
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
can consume more calories without weight gain
one week period
23. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?
starches - sugars - and cellulose
hemorrhage
can consume more calories without weight gain
300 cal/day increase
24. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
protein
25. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?
4 calories/gram
6 oz. a day
TPN total parenteral nutrition
transferrin
26. Name six sources of grains
TPN total parenteral nutrition
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
bread - pasta - oatmeal - cereal - tortilla - and grits
27. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?
antioxidant - immune function
dairy and fortified foods
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
TPN total parenteral nutrition
28. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?
liver and intestinal synthesis
6 oz. a day
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
hemorrhage
29. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
animal foods - fruits - veg - fortified milk
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
30. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
pregnant women or elderly
4 calories/gram
dietary approach to stop hypertension
31. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?
bread - pasta - oatmeal - cereal - tortilla - and grits
cream cheese - cream or butter
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
dairy and fortified foods
32. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
transferrin
milk - enriched grains
review of systems
33. What is the function of vitamin C?
hemorrhage
essential amino acids
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
34. What does DASH stand for?
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
starches - sugars - and cellulose
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
dietary approach to stop hypertension
35. What type of people need extra protein?
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
infants - children - pregnant or lactating
bread - pasta - oatmeal - cereal - tortilla - and grits
can consume more calories without weight gain
36. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?
5.5 ounces/day
vitamin C - citrus fruits
liver and intestinal synthesis
rickets - osteomalacia
37. How much more calories are needed for lactation?
milk - enriched grains
6 oz. a day
500 cal/day
trans fatty acid
38. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?
protein and fat
vitamin K
low albumin levels < 3.4
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
39. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
day week or month
one tspn salt or less
hemorrhage
40. Fats can lead to some medical problems
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
41. What foods have high quality protein?
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
diet recall
vision - bone - tissue growth -immune and reproductive function
4 calories/gram
42. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?
hemoglobin
2.5 cups
diet recall
500 cal/day
43. What orange vegetables are good to eat?
one week period
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
review of systems
carrots and sweet potatoes
44. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
4 calories/gram
milk - enriched grains
45. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease
essential amino acids
apple is higher risk than a pear
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
vitamin C - citrus fruits
46. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
3 cups
essential amino acids
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
47. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?
apple is higher risk than a pear
pregnant women or elderly
5.5 ounces/day
300 cal/day increase
48. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?
TPN total parenteral nutrition
rickets - osteomalacia
animal foods - fruits - veg - fortified milk
6 oz. a day
49. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily
activity - stress - temperature - pregnancy - smoking - caffeine - growth spurts
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
day week or month
50. What function is vitamin D?
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
18-25
dietary approach to stop hypertension
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition