Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications,

Edition 8 A Nursing Approach

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

Publication Date: 13 Jan 2022

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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.

Key Features

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 Features

NEW! Nursing Approach sections include Next Generation NCLEX^®terminology as well as single-episode cases and questions, with answers on the Evolve website

About the author

By 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

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

ISBN: 9780323810241

Page Count: 464

Illustrations : 215 illustrations (215 in full color)

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Students in undergraduate nursing programs