Nutritional foundations and clinical applications : a nursing approach
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- ISBN: 9780323242103
- ISBN: 0323242103
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Physical Description:
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x, 453 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm - Edition: Sixth edition.
- Publisher: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier Mosby, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Wellness nutrition -- Personal and community nutrition -- Digestion, absorption, and metabolism -- Carbohydrates -- Fats -- Protein -- Vitamins -- Water and minerals -- Energy, weight, and fitness -- Nutrition across the life span -- Nutrition assessment and patient care -- Food-related issues -- Nutrition for disorders of the gastrointestinal tract -- Nutrition for disorders of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas -- Nutrition for diabetes mellitus -- Nutrition in metabolic stress: burns, trauma and surgery -- Nutrition for cardiopulmonary diseases -- Nutrition for diseases of the kidneys -- Nutrition for neuro-psychiatric disorders -- Nutrition in cancer and HIV/AIDS. |
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Subject: | Diet therapy Nutrition Nursing Nutrition Therapy methods Diet Therapy methods Nutritional Physiological Phenomena |
Genre: | Nurses' Instruction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RM 216 .G763 2016 | 30775305509193 | General Collection | Available | - |
Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications : A Nursing Approach
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Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications : A Nursing Approach
Looking at nutrition and nutritional therapy from the nurse's perspective, Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach 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. Applying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking/Clinical Applications case studies help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations. Health Debate and Social Issue boxes explore controversial health issues and emphasize ethical, social, and community concerns, so that you can develop your own opinions. Cultural Considerations boxes highlight health issues and eating patterns related to specific ethnic groups to help you approach, interview, and assess patients from diverse populations. Teaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients. Personal Perspective boxes offer first-hand accounts of interactions with patients and their families, demonstrating the personal touch for which this book is known. Key terms and a glossary make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts. Website listings at the end of every chapter refer you to related sites for additional research and study. NEW! Nutrition for Neuro-Psychiatric Disorders chapter covers neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and psychiatric disorders such as depression and bipolar disorders. NEW! Nutrition in Metabolic Stress: Burns, Trauma, and Surgery chapter examines the effects of stress on nutrient metabolism and starvation along with severe stress due to surgery and trauma. NEW organization for the clinical chapters includes: 1) Disorder: background and implications, 2) Food and nutrition therapies, 3) Education: Teaching Tool boxes. UPDATED content reflects changes to Healthy People 2020 and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 . UPDATED! The Nursing Approach box analyzes a realistic nutrition case study in terms of the nursing process, demonstrating practical ways nurses can use nutrition in practice and process.