Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

<p>Master the nurse’s role in therapeutic nutrition and in teaching dietary health! <b>Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 8th</b> <b>Edition </b>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.</p><ul><b> <li><i>Applying Content Knowledge </i>and <i>Critical Thinking: Clinical Applications </i>case studies</b> help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations.</li> <li><b><i>Personal Perspective</i> box</b> 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. </li> <li><b><i>Teaching Tool </i>boxes </b>include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients.</li> <li><b><i>The Nursing Approach</i> boxes</b> analyze a realistic nutritional case study according to the nursing process.</li> <li><b><i>Social Issue </i>boxes </b>show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellness.</li> <li><b><i>Health Debate </i>boxes </b>address the nurse’s response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns. </li> <li><b><i>Cultural Considerations</i> boxes</b> show how to understand and respect the food and health customs of specific ethnic groups.</li> <li><b>Key terms </b><b>and a glossary </b>make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts.</li></ul><ul><b> <li>NEW! <i>Nursing Approach</i> sections </b>include Next Generation NCLEX<SUP>® </SUP>terminology as well as single-episode cases and questions, with answers on the Evolve website.</li></ul>