Master the nurse's role in nutrition and nutrition therapy to promote health! Grodner's Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 9th Edition, describes nutritional healing and wellness from the nurse's perspective. It introduces essential nutrients, then shows how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice, both for normal and therapeutic nutrition. This edition is updated with the most current guidelines and the latest nutrition research. Written by noted educators Sylvia Escott-Stump and Suzanne Dorner, this leading nutrition text promotes healthy diets and shows how nutrition may be used in preventing and managing diseases and disorders. - Applying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking: Clinical Applications case studies help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations - Nursing Approach boxes analyze realistic nutritional case studies and include questions for the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination - Teaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients - Personal Perspectives boxes offer a firsthand account of the ways in which nutrition affects patients' lives - Health Debate boxes address the nurse's response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns - Social Issues boxes show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellness - 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! Updated content incorporates current guidelines and information - NEW! Reorganized Table of Contents places Nutrients first as the basis for all interventions - NEW! Pro/Con boxes are added throughout the book, e.g., the benefits and challenges of a keto diet - NEW! Third-person perspective replaces first-person language in this edition - NEW! Additional NGN case studies/questions are added to the Nursing boxes and additional NGN cases are moved to the Evolve website
Master the nurse's role in nutrition and nutrition therapy to promote health! Grodner's Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 9th Edition, describes nutritional healing and wellness from the nurse's perspective. It introduces essential nutrients, then shows how nu...