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Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

A Nursing Approach

  • 6th Edition - January 29, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Michele Grodner, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Suzanne Dorner
  • Language: English

Looking at nutrition and nutritional therapy from the nurse’s perspective, Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach takes a wellness approach based on… Read more

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Looking at nutrition and nutritional therapy from the nurse’s perspective, Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach takes a wellness approach based on health promotion and primary prevention. It offers guidelines with a human, personal touch, using first-hand accounts to show how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice. This edition includes new chapters on the effects of stress on nutrient metabolism and on nutrition for neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Written by educators Michele Grodner, Sylvia Escott-Stump, and Suzie Dorner, this leading nutrition text promotes healthy diets and shows how nutrition may be used in treating and controlling 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.
  • Health Debate and Social Issue boxes explore controversial health issues and emphasize ethical, social, and community concerns, so that you can develop your own opinions.
  • Cultural Considerations boxes highlight health issues and eating patterns related to specific ethnic groups to help you approach, interview, and assess patients from diverse populations.
  • Teaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients.
  • Personal Perspective boxes offer first-hand accounts of interactions with patients and their families, demonstrating the personal touch for which this book is known.
  • Key terms and a glossary make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts.
  • Website listings at the end of every chapter refer you to related sites for additional research and study.

Table of contents

PART I: Wellness, Nutrition, and the Nursing Role

1. Wellness Nutrition

2. Personal and Community Nutrition
PART II: Nutrients, Food, and Health

3. Digestion, Absorption, and Metabolism

4. Carbohydrates

5. Fats

6. Protein

7. Vitamins

8. Water and Minerals
PART III: Health Promotion Through Nutrition and Nursing Practice

9. Energy, Weight and Fitness

10. Nutrition Across the Life Span
PART IV: Overview of Medical Nutrition Therapy

11. Nutrition Assessment and Patient Care

12. Food-Related Issues

13. Nutrition for Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract

14. Nutrition for Disorders of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Pancreas

15. Nutrition for Diabetes Mellitus

16. Nutrition in Metabolic Stress: Burns, Trauma, and Surgery NEW!

17. Nutrition for Cardiopulmonary Disease

18. Nutrition for Diseases of the Kidneys

19. Nutrition for Neuro-Psychiatric Disorders NEW!

20. Nutrition in Cancer and HIV-AIDS
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Review quotes

"This is an excellent book for nursing students and nursing professionals who are looking for an up-to-date reference on nutrition and the role of the nurse."

-Amy Hess-Fischl, MS, RD, LDN, BC-ADM, CDE (University of Chicago Medical Center) Doody Score: 5 Stars

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 29, 2015
  • Language: English

About the authors

Michele Grodner

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

Sylvia Escott-Stump

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

Suzanne Dorner

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