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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • 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 function is vitamin D?






2. What function is vitamin A?






3. What foods have high quality protein?






4. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






5. Where can you get more vitamin D?






6. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






7. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






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






9. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






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






12. What type of people need extra protein?






13. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






15. When does BMR decrease?






16. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






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






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






19. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






20. When does BMR increase?






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






22. Fats can lead to some medical problems






23. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






24. What is normal albumin levels?






25. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






26. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






27. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






28. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






30. What is RDA of protein?






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






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






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






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






35. Name six sources of grains






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






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






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






39. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






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






41. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






43. What does DASH stand for?






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






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






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






47. What is normal BMI?






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






49. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






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