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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are healthy sources of fats?






2. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






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






4. What type of people need extra protein?






5. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






7. Where can you get more vitamin D?






8. Name six sources of grains






9. What is RDA of protein?






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






17. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






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






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






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






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






22. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






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






25. The higher the BMR a client has --






26. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






27. What is normal albumin levels?






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






29. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






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






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






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






33. What function is vitamin A?






34. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






35. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






36. How many calories/gram is protein?






37. What is the function of vitamin E?






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






39. What is normal BMI?






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






41. When does BMR decrease?






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






43. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






44. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






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






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






47. Fats can lead to some medical problems






48. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






49. What function is vitamin D?






50. What is the function of vitamin C?