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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What type of people need extra protein?






2. What function is vitamin D?






3. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






5. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






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






8. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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






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






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






12. When does BMR increase?






13. What is the function of vitamin E?






14. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






15. How many calories/gram is protein?






16. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






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






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






19. Sources of fats






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






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






22. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






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






25. What is RDA of protein?






26. The higher the BMR a client has --






27. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






28. What does DASH stand for?






29. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






30. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






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






33. What is normal albumin levels?






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






35. What foods have high quality protein?






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






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






38. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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






40. When does BMR decrease?






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






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






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






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






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






46. What function is vitamin A?






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






48. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






49. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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