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NCLEX Nutrition

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






2. Where can you get more vitamin D?






3. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






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






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






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






7. What is the function of vitamin C?






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






9. What foods have high quality protein?






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






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






12. What does DASH stand for?






13. Fats can lead to some medical problems






14. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






15. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Sources of fats






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






27. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






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






29. What is the function of vitamin E?






30. What function is vitamin D?






31. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






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






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






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






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






36. The higher the BMR a client has --






37. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






38. What are healthy sources of fats?






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






40. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






41. What is normal BMI?






42. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






43. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






44. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






45. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






46. When does BMR increase?






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






48. What is normal albumin levels?






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






50. When does BMR decrease?