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: $84.99

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: $84.99

$84.99

Or $0.00 with a valid access code

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Nutrition**

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

    Glossary

    Index
  • Michele Grodner, EdD, CHES, Professor
    Department of Public Health
    William Paterson University
    Wayne, New Jersey, Sylvia Escott-Stump, MA, RD, LDN, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director
    Dietetic Internship
    East Carolina University
    Greenville, North Carolina and Suzanne Dorner, MSN, RN, CCRN, Assistant Manager
    Medical Intensive Care Unit
    Tampa General Hospital
    Tampa, Florida

$84.99

Or $0.00 with a valid access code