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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






2. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






3. How many calories/gram is protein?






4. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






5. When does BMR increase?






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






7. What function is vitamin D?






8. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






9. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






10. Where can you get more vitamin D?






11. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






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






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






14. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






15. What is RDA of protein?






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






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






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






19. What is normal BMI?






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






21. Fats can lead to some medical problems






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






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






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






25. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






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






28. What function is vitamin A?






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






30. Sources of fats






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






32. What is the function of vitamin E?






33. What is normal albumin levels?






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






35. What does DASH stand for?






36. When does BMR decrease?






37. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






39. The higher the BMR a client has --






40. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






41. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






43. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






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






46. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






47. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






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






49. What foods have high quality protein?






50. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?