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