by Sylvia Escott-Stump MA RD LDN, Michele Grodner EdD CHES, Suzanne Dorner MSN RN CCRN

Master the nurse’s role in nutrition and nutrition therapy to promote health! Grodner's Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 9th Edition,describes nutritional healing and wellness from the nurse’s perspective. It introduces essential nutrients, then shows how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice, both for normal and therapeutic nutrition. This edition is updated with the most current guidelines and the latest nutrition research. Written by noted educators Sylvia Escott-Stump and Suzanne Dorner, this leading nutrition text promotes healthy diets and shows how nutrition may be used in preventing and managing diseases and disorders.

Applying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking: Clinical Applications case studies help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations

Nursing Approach boxes analyze realistic nutritional case studies and include questions for the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination

Teaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients

Personal Perspectives boxes offer a firsthand account of the ways in which nutrition affects patients’ lives

Health Debate boxes address the nurse’s response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns

Social Issues boxes show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellness

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

NEW! Updated content incorporates current guidelines and information

NEW! Reorganized Table of Contents places Nutrients first as the basis for all interventions

NEW! Pro/Con boxes are added throughout the book, e.g., the benefits and challenges of a keto diet

NEW! Third-person perspective replaces first-person language in this edition

NEW! Additional NGN case studies/questions are added to the Nursing boxes and additional NGN cases are moved to the Evolve website

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