Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice

by Susan Dudek

Overview

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Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice, 9th Edition gives nursing students the understanding of nutrition theory and application to ensure effective client care across the life cycle and the health-illness continuum. Incorporating nutrition throughout the nursing care process, Susan Dudek’s concise yet thorough text equips tomorrow’s nurses with the latest evidence-based practices and recommendations to facilitate nutrition on the front lines of nursing practice, from assessment and nursing diagnoses to implementation and evaluation. 
 
The most up-to-date resource of its kind, this revised edition includes the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 and makes need-to-know information more accessible than ever with a student-friendly format, improved organization, engaging case studies, and adaptable content optimized for use in standalone courses, online, or a fully integrated curriculum.  
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975161125
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	07/31/2021
Edition description:	Ninth, North American Edition
Pages:	656
Sales rank:	433,367
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

• Unit 1: Nutrition Fundamentals
  • Chapter 1        Nutrition in Health
  • Chapter 2        Guidelines for Healthy Eating
  • Chapter 3        Carbohydrates
  • Chapter 4        Protein
  • Chapter 5        Lipids
  • Chapter 6        Vitamins
  • Chapter 7        Water and Minerals
  • Chapter 8        Energy Balance
• Unit 2: Nutrition in Health Promotion
  • Chapter 9        Food and Supplement Labeling
  • Chapter 10      Consumer Interests and Concerns
  • Chapter 11      Cultural and Religious Influences on Food and Nutrition
  • Chapter 12      Healthy Eating for Healthy Babies
  • Chapter 13      Nutrition for Infants, Children, and Adolescents
  • Chapter 14      Nutrition for Older Adults
• Unit 3: Nutrition in Clinical Practice
  • Chapter 15      Hospital Nutrition: Identifying Nutrition Risk and Feeding Clients 
  • Chapter 16      Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
  • Chapter 17      Nutrition for Obesity and Eating Disorders
  • Chapter 18      Nutrition for Clients with Critical Illness 
  • Chapter 19      Nutrition for Clients with Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders
  • Chapter 20      Nutrition for Clients with Disorders of the Lower GI Tract and Accessory Organs
  • Chapter 21      Nutrition for Clients with Diabetes Mellitus
  • Chapter 22      Nutrition for Clients with Cardiovascular Disorders
  • Chapter 23      Nutrition for Clients with Kidney Disorders
  • Chapter 24      Nutrition for Clients with Cancer or HIV/AIDS

 

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Taylor Durkin, BS (University of Chicago Medical Center)
Description: Reflecting the latest evidence-based practice and nutrition recommendations, this eighth edition of a book that details the basics of nutrition for nurses maintains its focus on all steps of the nursing care process, from assessment and nursing diagnoses to implementation and evaluation. An accompanying website offers additional material such as PowerPoints, videos, and answers to case studies. The seventh edition was published in 2014.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide nursing students with a nutrition foundation. These are worthy objectives given that patients spend a great deal of time communicating with nurses, who will need to interpret questions and give appropriate responses as well as understand when to refer to an MD or RD. In addition, in the acute care setting, nurses are the first to screen patients for malnutrition. The online format adds value as there's more opportunity to discuss the case studies and it offers study-friendly PowerPoints. However, the use of video and images could be improved. Lastly, having an ebook version would add value.
Audience: The intended audience is nursing students.
Features: The book begins by discussing the principles of nutrition, which introduces macronutrients and micronutrients. It then covers how nutrition plays a role in helping manage different disease states such as cardiovascular disease, GI disorders, obesity, diabetes mellitus, etc. The "check your knowledge" and "case study" features are helpful.
Assessment: Overall, this is a good quality book that will benefit nursing students interested in expanding their knowledge of how nutrition plays a role in disease management and prevention. Pairing this book with the website is valuable as the site offers more commentary and discussion of the case studies. A similar book aimed at nursing students, Discovering Nutrition, 5th edition, Insel et al. (Jones & Bartlett, 2016), is also very rich in text, and I appreciate that book's use of images and tables. This book could be improved by decreasing the tables and increasing the number of images used to present material.

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