WGU NUTRITION D440 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔A pt with coronary heart disease doesn't want to change - ✔✔Re emphasize facts
✔✔Lvn takes waist measurements - ✔✔Can review results and provide reaching
✔✔Paleo diet - ✔✔Deficient in calcium
✔✔PT has HTN what should nurse do - ✔✔Utilize dash diet and 4-6 servings of fruit
and veg
✔✔Pt wants to go to a farmers market and asks about unpasteurized milk - ✔✔Unsafe
to drink
✔✔Pt with migrane headaches should decrease tyramine foods - ✔✔So salami
✔✔Nurse is watching new nurse insert NG tube, 1st step is - ✔✔Elevate the head
✔✔Child is pre diabetic and wants to join soccer - ✔✔Patient is fine
✔✔Foods to prevent cancer - ✔✔Healthy food, more fruits and veggies
✔✔ What two work together? - ✔✔Calcium and vitamin D
✔✔Calcium deficiency can cause what? - ✔✔Rickets, osteoporosis, chvostek's sign,
trousseau's sign
✔✔Foods high in calcium - ✔✔Milk and milk products, orange juice, salmon, sardines,
soybeans, tofu, collard greens, beets, kale, broccoli, cream of wheat
✔✔Food sources of phosphorous - ✔✔High protein food like milk, yogurt, cheese, eggs,
meat, and fish
✔✔High sodium= - ✔✔Low potassium
✔✔Avoid what while increasing sodium? - ✔✔k+ foods
✔✔Food sources of potassium - ✔✔Bananas, oranges, dried prunes, sweet potatoes,
spinach, avocado, raisins, milk, yogurt, beans, clams, halibut and kidney beans
✔✔Food sources of magnesium - ✔✔Nuts, soybeans, legumes, whole grains, cocoa,
spinach, oats
, ✔✔Low Sodium (Hyponatremia) is seen in patients with - ✔✔Kidney disease, adrenal
crisis, heart failure, diuretics
✔✔Foods high in sodium - ✔✔Processed foods, fast food, junk, packaged food, and
dressing and condiments
✔✔What increases iron absorption? - ✔✔Vitamin C
✔✔Sources of iron - ✔✔Liver, pork, chicken, beef, enriched grains, dark green leafy
veg, oysters, soybeans, tofu, molasses
✔✔Food sources for folate vitamin B9 - ✔✔Asparagus, edamame, spinach, orange
juice, chicken and turkey liver, chickpeas, garbanzo beans, legumes, YOGURT, ready
to eat Quaker cereals
✔✔Iodine deficiencies are - ✔✔Goiter, cretinism, and hypothyroidism
✔✔Sources of iodine - ✔✔Seafood, seaweed, shellfish and table salt
✔✔Food sources of zinc - ✔✔Seafood, lobsters, oysters, crabs, meat, yogurt,
soybeans, legumes, whole grains
✔✔Vitamin A is for - ✔✔Apricots and orange foods. It is retinol for vision
✔✔Food sources of vitamin a - ✔✔Fish oil, carrots, kale, spinach, sweet potatoes,
yams, pumpkins, melons, apricots, liver, egg yolks, and butter, cream, milk
✔✔Vitamin K is for - ✔✔KALE
✔✔Vitamin k deficiency is - ✔✔Severe malabsorption disorders like crohns
✔✔Sources of vitamin K - ✔✔Spinach, kale, collard greens, turnips, mustard greens
and beets
✔✔Vitamin C is - ✔✔SCURVY AND CITRUS FRUITS
✔✔Vitamin c increases - ✔✔Iron absorption
✔✔Vitamin c sources - ✔✔Citrus fruits, oranges, tomatoes, kiwis, berries, lemons,
pineapple, broccoli, yellow and green vegetables, PEPPERS
✔✔Vitamin B1 thiamine food sources - ✔✔Bread, flour, cereal, rice, pasta, beans and
legumes, hams, pork loin, nuts, yeast
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔A pt with coronary heart disease doesn't want to change - ✔✔Re emphasize facts
✔✔Lvn takes waist measurements - ✔✔Can review results and provide reaching
✔✔Paleo diet - ✔✔Deficient in calcium
✔✔PT has HTN what should nurse do - ✔✔Utilize dash diet and 4-6 servings of fruit
and veg
✔✔Pt wants to go to a farmers market and asks about unpasteurized milk - ✔✔Unsafe
to drink
✔✔Pt with migrane headaches should decrease tyramine foods - ✔✔So salami
✔✔Nurse is watching new nurse insert NG tube, 1st step is - ✔✔Elevate the head
✔✔Child is pre diabetic and wants to join soccer - ✔✔Patient is fine
✔✔Foods to prevent cancer - ✔✔Healthy food, more fruits and veggies
✔✔ What two work together? - ✔✔Calcium and vitamin D
✔✔Calcium deficiency can cause what? - ✔✔Rickets, osteoporosis, chvostek's sign,
trousseau's sign
✔✔Foods high in calcium - ✔✔Milk and milk products, orange juice, salmon, sardines,
soybeans, tofu, collard greens, beets, kale, broccoli, cream of wheat
✔✔Food sources of phosphorous - ✔✔High protein food like milk, yogurt, cheese, eggs,
meat, and fish
✔✔High sodium= - ✔✔Low potassium
✔✔Avoid what while increasing sodium? - ✔✔k+ foods
✔✔Food sources of potassium - ✔✔Bananas, oranges, dried prunes, sweet potatoes,
spinach, avocado, raisins, milk, yogurt, beans, clams, halibut and kidney beans
✔✔Food sources of magnesium - ✔✔Nuts, soybeans, legumes, whole grains, cocoa,
spinach, oats
, ✔✔Low Sodium (Hyponatremia) is seen in patients with - ✔✔Kidney disease, adrenal
crisis, heart failure, diuretics
✔✔Foods high in sodium - ✔✔Processed foods, fast food, junk, packaged food, and
dressing and condiments
✔✔What increases iron absorption? - ✔✔Vitamin C
✔✔Sources of iron - ✔✔Liver, pork, chicken, beef, enriched grains, dark green leafy
veg, oysters, soybeans, tofu, molasses
✔✔Food sources for folate vitamin B9 - ✔✔Asparagus, edamame, spinach, orange
juice, chicken and turkey liver, chickpeas, garbanzo beans, legumes, YOGURT, ready
to eat Quaker cereals
✔✔Iodine deficiencies are - ✔✔Goiter, cretinism, and hypothyroidism
✔✔Sources of iodine - ✔✔Seafood, seaweed, shellfish and table salt
✔✔Food sources of zinc - ✔✔Seafood, lobsters, oysters, crabs, meat, yogurt,
soybeans, legumes, whole grains
✔✔Vitamin A is for - ✔✔Apricots and orange foods. It is retinol for vision
✔✔Food sources of vitamin a - ✔✔Fish oil, carrots, kale, spinach, sweet potatoes,
yams, pumpkins, melons, apricots, liver, egg yolks, and butter, cream, milk
✔✔Vitamin K is for - ✔✔KALE
✔✔Vitamin k deficiency is - ✔✔Severe malabsorption disorders like crohns
✔✔Sources of vitamin K - ✔✔Spinach, kale, collard greens, turnips, mustard greens
and beets
✔✔Vitamin C is - ✔✔SCURVY AND CITRUS FRUITS
✔✔Vitamin c increases - ✔✔Iron absorption
✔✔Vitamin c sources - ✔✔Citrus fruits, oranges, tomatoes, kiwis, berries, lemons,
pineapple, broccoli, yellow and green vegetables, PEPPERS
✔✔Vitamin B1 thiamine food sources - ✔✔Bread, flour, cereal, rice, pasta, beans and
legumes, hams, pork loin, nuts, yeast
