cover image - Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780323811941
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 01-20-2022
Page Count: 464
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $90.99

Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition

by Michele Grodner, EdD, CHES, Sylvia Escott-Stump, MA, RD, LDN and Suzanne Dorner, MSN, RN, CCRN

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780323811941
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 01-20-2022
Page Count: 464
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $90.99
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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
    • NEW! Nursing Approach sections include Next Generation NCLEX® terminology as well as single-episode cases and questions, with answers on the Evolve website
  • 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
  • Michele Grodner, EdD, CHES, Professor, Department of Public Health, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, USA, Sylvia Escott-Stump, MA, RD, LDN, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, Dietetic Internship, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA and Suzanne Dorner, MSN, RN, CCRN, Assistant Manager, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA
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