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Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications, 8th Edition

A Nursing Approach
Authors :
Michele Grodner & Sylvia Escott-Stump & Suzanne Dorner
Date of Publication: 01/2022
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Nutrition**Master the nurse’s role in therapeutic nutrition and in teaching dietary health! Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 8th Edition describes nutri ...view more

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Nutrition**

Master the nurse’s 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 nurse’s 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.

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Nutrition**

Master the nurse’s 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 nurse’s 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.


New to this edition
  • NEW! Nursing Approach sections include Next Generation NCLEX® terminology as well as single-episode cases and questions, with answers on the Evolve website.

Key Features
  • Applying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking: Clinical Applications case studies help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations.
  • Personal Perspective box in each chapter offers a firsthand account of the ways in which nutrition affects patients’ lives, demonstrating the personal touch for which this book is known.
  • Teaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients.
  • The Nursing Approach boxes analyze a realistic nutritional case study according to the nursing process.
  • Social Issue boxes show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellness.
  • Health Debate boxes address the nurse’s response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns.
  • Cultural Considerations boxes show how to understand and respect the food and health customs of specific ethnic groups.
  • Key terms and a glossary make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts.

Author Information
By Michele Grodner, EdD, CHES, Professor Department of Public Health William Paterson University Wayne, New Jersey; Sylvia Escott-Stump, MA, RD, LDN, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director Dietetic Internship East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina and Suzanne Dorner, MSN, RN, CCRN, Assistant Manager Medical Intensive Care Unit Tampa General Hospital Tampa, Florida