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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






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






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






4. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






5. What is normal albumin levels?






6. What is RDA of protein?






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






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






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






10. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






11. What are healthy sources of fats?






12. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






14. What foods have high quality protein?






15. What does DASH stand for?






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






17. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






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






20. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






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






22. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






23. Name six sources of grains






24. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






25. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






26. How many calories/gram is protein?






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






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






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






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






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






32. When does BMR increase?






33. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






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






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






36. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






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






38. When does BMR decrease?






39. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






41. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






42. What function is vitamin D?






43. What type of people need extra protein?






44. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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






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






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






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






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






50. What function is vitamin A?