Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach

Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach

• Mosby

<p>Looking at nutrition and nutritional therapy from the nurse€s perspective,<b> Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach </b>takes a wellness approach based on health promotion and primary prevention. It offers guidelines with a human, personal touch, using first-hand accounts to show how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice. This edition includes new chapters on the effects of stress on nutrient metabolism and on nutrition for neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer€s and Parkinson€s disease. Written by 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>Health Debate</i> and <i>Social Issue</i> boxes</b> explore controversial health issues and emphasize ethical, social, and community concerns, so that you can develop your own opinions.</li><li><b><i>Cultural Considerations</i> boxes</b> highlight health issues and eating patterns related to specific ethnic groups to help you approach, interview, and assess patients from diverse populations.</li><li><b><i>Teaching Tool</i> boxes</b> include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients.</li><li><b><i>Personal Perspective</i> boxes</b> offer first-hand accounts of interactions with patients and their families, demonstrating the personal touch for which this book is known.</li><li><b>Key terms</b> <b>and a glossary</b> make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts.</li><li><b>Website listings</b> at the end of every chapter refer you to related sites for additional research and study.</li> </ul><ul><b><li>NEW!</b> <b><i>Nutrition for Neuro-Psychiatric Disorders</i> chapter </b>covers neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer€s and Parkinson€s disease and psychiatric disorders such as depression and bipolar disorders. </li><li><b>NEW!</b> <b><i>Nutrition in Metabolic Stress: Burns, Trauma, and Surgery</i> chapter</b> examines the effects of stress on nutrient metabolism and starvation along with severe stress due to surgery and trauma. </li><li><b>NEW</b> <b>organization for the clinical chapters</b> includes: 1) Disorder: background and implications, 2) Food and nutrition therapies, 3) Education: <i>Teaching Tool</i> boxes.</li><li><b>UPDATED</b> <b>content </b>reflects changes to <i>Healthy People 2020 </i>and the <i>Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010</i>.</li><li><b>UPDATED!</b> <b><i>The Nursing Approach</i> box</b> analyzes a realistic nutrition case study in terms of the nursing process, demonstrating practical ways nurses can use nutrition in practice and process.</li> </ul>