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NCLEX Nutrition

Instructions:
  • 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 fruit is to be eaten/day?






2. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






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






5. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






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






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






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






9. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






10. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






11. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






12. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






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






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






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






16. What does DASH stand for?






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






18. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






19. Name six sources of grains






20. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






22. How many calories/gram is protein?






23. Fats can lead to some medical problems






24. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






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






27. What is the function of vitamin E?






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






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






30. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






31. What is the function of vitamin C?






32. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






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






34. What type of people need extra protein?






35. What is normal albumin levels?






36. What is normal BMI?






37. Sources of fats






38. The higher the BMR a client has --






39. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






40. What are healthy sources of fats?






41. What function is vitamin A?






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






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






44. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






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






47. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






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






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