Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications
A Nursing Approach
- 8th Edition - October 2, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Michele Grodner, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Suzanne Dorner
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 1 0 2 4 - 1
- LooseLeaf ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 2 9 6 7 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 1 1 9 2 - 7
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Master the nurse’s role in therapeutic nutrition and in teaching dietary health! Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 8th Edition describes nutritional healing and wellness from the nurse’s perspective. It covers dietary guidelines with a humanistic, personal touch, using first-hand accounts to show how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice. This edition is updated with the most current guidelines and the latest research on nutrition. Written by noted 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.
- Applying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking: Clinical Applications case studies help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations.
- Personal Perspective box in each chapter offers a firsthand account of the ways in which nutrition affects patients’ lives, demonstrating the personal touch for which this book is known.
- Teaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients.
- The Nursing Approach boxes analyze a realistic nutritional case study according to the nursing process.
- Social Issue boxes show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellness.
- Health Debate boxes address the nurse’s response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns.
- 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.
Students in undergraduate nursing programs
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
Glossary
Index- Edition: 8
- Published: October 2, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323810241
- LooseLeaf ISBN: 9780323829670
- eBook ISBN: 9780323811927
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Michele Grodner
Affiliations and expertise
Professor
Department of Public Health
William Paterson University
Wayne, New JerseySE
Sylvia Escott-Stump
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director
Dietetic Internship
East Carolina University
Greenville, North CarolinaSD
Suzanne Dorner
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Manager
Medical Intensive Care Unit
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, Florida