Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach

Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach

<p>Focusing on nutrition and nutritional therapy from the nurses’ perspective, <b>Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 7th Edition</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 new edition incorporates the most current guidelines and information on key nutrition topics throughout as well as expanded coverage on the role of inflammation in common disease. A favorite of nursing students and instructors, this leading nutrition text promotes healthy diets and shows how nutrition may be used in treating and controlling diseases and disorders.</p><ul><b><i><li>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><i>Applying Content Knowledge</i> and <i>Critical Thinking/Clinical Applications</i> case studies</b> help you learn to apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations.</li><li><b><i>Social Issue</i> boxes</b> emphasize ethical, social, and community concerns on local, national international levels to reveal the various influences on health and wellness.</li><li><b><i>Teaching Tool</i> boxes</b> include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients.</li><li><b><i>Health Debate</i> boxes </b>prepare you for encountering differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns.</li><li><b>Key terms</b> <b>and a glossary</b> make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts.</li> </ul><ul><b><li>NEW! Completely updated content</b> <b>throughout</b> incorporates the latest dietary guidelines and most current information on topics such as good vs. bad fats, nutrition during pregnancy, microbiota/probiotics/prebiotics, and more.</li><li><b>NEW! <i>Cultural Diversity and Nutrition</i> sections</b> <b>in each chapter</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>NEW! Enhanced coverage of health literacy</b> equips you with strategies for enhancing patient education for those with low literacy skills.</li><li><b>NEW! Additional <i>Nursing Approach </i>boxes</b> analyze realistic nutrition case studies from the perspective of the nursing process.</li><li><b>NEW! Expanded coverage of inflammation</b> highlights its pivotal role in conditions such as obesity, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.</li> </ul>