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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






2. What is normal BMI?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. What is the function of vitamin E?






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






12. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






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






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






15. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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






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






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






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






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






21. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






23. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






25. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






26. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






28. What does DASH stand for?






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






30. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






32. Sources of fats






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






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






35. What type of people need extra protein?






36. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






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






38. Fats can lead to some medical problems






39. Where can you get more vitamin D?






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






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






42. What function is vitamin D?






43. What is normal albumin levels?






44. What function is vitamin A?






45. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






46. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






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






49. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






50. When does BMR increase?