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Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

A Nursing Approach

  • 8 Edición - 2 de octubre de 2021
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Michele Grodner, Sylvia Escott-Stump, Suzanne Dorner
  • Idioma: Inglés

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Nutrition**Master the nurse’s role in therapeutic nutrition and in teaching dietary health! Nutritional Foun… Leer más

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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase 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.

Puntos claves

  • 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

De interès para

Students in undergraduate nursing programs

Índice

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

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 8
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 20 de enero de 2022
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

MG

Michele Grodner

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor, Department of Public Health, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, USA

SE

Sylvia Escott-Stump

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, Dietetic Internship, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

SD

Suzanne Dorner

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Assistant Manager, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida, USA