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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






2. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






3. What is normal BMI?






4. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






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






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






7. What is the function of vitamin E?






8. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






10. The higher the BMR a client has --






11. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






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






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






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






15. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






16. What foods have high quality protein?






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






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






19. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






20. What function is vitamin A?






21. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






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






33. How many calories/gram is protein?






34. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






35. What type of people need extra protein?






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






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






38. What function is vitamin D?






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






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






41. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






42. Fats can lead to some medical problems






43. Name six sources of grains






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






45. Sources of fats






46. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






48. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






49. What does DASH stand for?






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