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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






2. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






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






4. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






5. What is RDA of protein?






6. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






7. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






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






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






11. The higher the BMR a client has --






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






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






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






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






16. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






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






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






20. How many calories/gram is protein?






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






22. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






23. What type of people need extra protein?






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






25. Name six sources of grains






26. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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






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






29. What foods have high quality protein?






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






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






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






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






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






35. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






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






37. What is the function of vitamin C?






38. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






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






41. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






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






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






44. When does BMR increase?






45. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






47. What does DASH stand for?






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






49. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






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