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Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

A Nursing Approach

  • 7th Edition - November 21, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Michele Grodner, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Suzanne Dorner
  • Language: English

Focusing on nutrition and nutritional therapy from the nurses’ perspective, Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 7th Edition takes a wellness appr… Read more

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Focusing on nutrition and nutritional therapy from the nurses’ perspective, Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 7th Edition 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 new edition incorporates the most current guidelines and information on key nutrition topics throughout as well as expanded coverage on the role of inflammation in common disease. A favorite of nursing students and instructors, this leading nutrition text promotes healthy diets and shows how nutrition may be used in treating and controlling diseases and disorders.

Key features

  • Personal Perspective boxes offer first-hand accounts of interactions with patients and their families, demonstrating the personal touch for which this book is known
  • Applying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking/Clinical Applications case studies help you learn to apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations
  • Social Issue　boxes　emphasize ethical, social, and community concerns on local, national international levels to reveal the various influences on health and wellness
  • Teaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients
  • Health Debate　boxes prepare you for encountering differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns
  • Key terms and a glossary make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts

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

17. Nutrition for Cardiopulmonary Disease

18. Nutrition for Diseases of the Kidneys

19. Nutrition for Neuro-Psychiatric Disorders

20. Nutrition in Cancer and HIV-AIDS

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 1, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

MG

Michele Grodner

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

SE

Sylvia Escott-Stump

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

SD

Suzanne Dorner

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