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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. What are healthy sources of fats?






2. Sources of fats






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






4. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






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






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






7. The higher the BMR a client has --






8. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






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






10. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






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






12. How many calories/gram is protein?






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






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






15. What is RDA of protein?






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






17. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






25. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






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






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






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






30. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






32. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






33. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






34. What is normal BMI?






35. What type of people need extra protein?






36. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






38. What is the function of vitamin E?






39. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






40. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






41. When does BMR decrease?






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






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






44. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






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






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






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






49. When does BMR increase?






50. Name six sources of grains