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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






2. What is the function of vitamin E?






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






4. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






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






6. What is RDA of protein?






7. What function is vitamin A?






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






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






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






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






12. What is normal BMI?






13. When does BMR decrease?






14. How many calories/gram is protein?






15. What is the function of vitamin C?






16. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






17. Where can you get more vitamin D?






18. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






19. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






21. Sources of fats






22. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






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






25. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






26. What is normal albumin levels?






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






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






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






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






38. When does BMR increase?






39. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






40. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






41. Fats can lead to some medical problems






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






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






44. What function is vitamin D?






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






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






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






48. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






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