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Grodner's Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

A Nursing Approach

  • 9th Edition - October 26, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Sylvia Escott-Stump, Michele Grodner, Suzanne Dorner
  • Language: English

Master the nurse’s role in nutrition and nutrition therapy to promote health! Grodner's Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 9th Edition, des… Read more

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Master the nurse’s role in nutrition and nutrition therapy to promote health! Grodner's Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 9th Edition, describes nutritional healing and wellness from the nurse’s perspective. It introduces essential nutrients, then shows how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice, both for normal and therapeutic nutrition. This edition is updated with the most current guidelines and the latest nutrition research. Written by noted educators Sylvia Escott-Stump and Suzanne Dorner, this leading nutrition text promotes healthy diets and shows how nutrition may be used in preventing and managing diseases and disorders.

Key features

  • Applying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking: Clinical Applications case studies help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations
  • Nursing Approach boxes analyze realistic nutritional case studies and include questions for the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination
  • Teaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients
  • Personal Perspectives boxes offer a firsthand account of the ways in which nutrition affects patients’ lives
  • Health Debate boxes address the nurse’s response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns
  • Social Issues boxes show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellness
  • Cultural Considerations boxes show how to understand and respect the food and health customs of specific ethnic groups
  • Key terms and a glossary make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts

Readership

Nursing students in 2-year and 4-year programs

Table of contents

Part 1 The Basics – Nutrients for Health

1 Digestion, Absorption, and Metabolism

2 Macronutrients: Carbohydrates, Fats, and Proteins

3 Micronutrients: Vitamins

4 Micronutrients: Minerals and Water
Part 2 Lifespan Nutrition, Wellness, and Nursing Practice

5 Nutrition Across the Lifespan

6 Energy, Weight Management, and Fitness

7 Community Nutrition and Wellness
Part 3 Nutrition Therapy and Nursing Management

8 Nutrition Assessment for Patient Care

9 Food-Related Issues

10 Nutrition for Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract

11 Nutrition for Disorders of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Pancreas

12 Nutrition for Diabetes Mellitus

13 Nutrition in Metabolic Stress: Burns, Trauma, and Surgery

14 Nutrition for Cardiopulmonary Diseases

15 Nutrition for Diseases of the Kidneys

16 Nutrition for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

17 Nutrition in Cancer and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Product details

  • Edition: 9
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 26, 2026
  • Language: English

About the authors

Sylvia Escott-Stump

Author
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, Dietetic Internship, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Michele Grodner

Author
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Public Health, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, USA

Suzanne Dorner

Author
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Manager, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA