Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice

Description

The Sixth Edition of this nursing-focused nutrition text has been updated to reflect the latest evidence-based practice and nutrition recommendations and streamlined to emphasize what the nurse really needs to know. Maintaining its nursing process focus and emphasis on patient teaching, this edition includes new features to help readers integrate nutrition into nursing care. These new features include Nursing Process tables, Case Studies for every chapter, and NCLEX style study questions for every chapter. Web addresses at end of each chapter will draw students to the most up-to-date and reliable resources on the Web.

Features

--NEW! Nursing Process tables make application more accessible to the reader.
--NEW! Case Studies for every chapter challenge readers to apply and analyze their knowledge of nutrition.
--NEW! NCLEX-style study questions for every chapter
--Quick Bites provides short, compelling food details and facts to captivate the reader with interesting and valuable information on current research.
--Definitions and key terms noted within the margins make it easy for students to learn nutrition terminology
--Web addresses found at end of each chapter will draw students to the most up-to-date and reliable resources on the web.
--Content has been updated to reflect the latest evidence-based practice, including: revised nutrition recommendations from the American Diabetes Association and the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research; MyPyramid for Moms.
--More streamlined content to focus attention on what the nurse really needs to know.
--Responding to reviewers suggestions, Gastrointestinal chapter has been divided into 2 separate chapters to match how they are presented in nursing curricula.
--True/False questions at the beginning of each chapter test student knowledge, and tie to objectives (answer key is found at the end of each chapter).
--"How Do You Respond?" feature at chapter endings helps students identify potential questions that might arise within the clinical setting and will help them to be prepared to think on their feet.
--Key Concepts (bulleted lists), are found at the end of each chapter and serve as a useful summary of chapter material.
--Sample Diets throughout are a useful reference.
--Includes Dietary Reference Intakes, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and other countries, MyPyramid, and nutritional needs throughout the life cycle.

About the Author(s)

Specs

Edition: Sixth
Product Format: Softbound
ISBN: 9780781784542
Trim Size: 8 x 10
Pages: 608
Pub Date: Jul 12, 2010
Weight: 3.0

Associated Specialties

CHAPTER 14 Obesity and Eating Disorders
CHAPTER 15 Feeding Patients: Oral Diets and Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
CHAPTER 16 Nutrition for Patients with Metabolic or Respiratory Stress
CHAPTER 17 Nutrition for Patients With Upper Gastrointestinal Disorders
CHAPTER 18: Nutrition for Patients with Disorders of the Lower GI Tract and Accessory Organs
CHAPTER 19 Nutrition for Patients With Diabetes Mellitus
CHAPTER 20 Nutrition for Patients With Cardiovascular Disorders
CHAPTER 21 Nutrition for Patients With Kidney Disorders
CHAPTER 22 Nutrition for Patients With Cancer or HIV/AIDS

APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO STUDY QUESTIONS