**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
analyze a realistic nutritional case study according to the nursing process.
Social Issue
show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellness.
Health Debate
address the nurse’s response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns.
Cultural Considerations
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.