Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

Master the nurses 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 nurses 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.

• 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

  Glossary

  Index