Product Description \nMaster 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.\\nApplying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking: Clinical Applications case studies help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situations.\nPersonal 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. \nTeaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patients.\nThe Nursing Approach boxes analyze a realistic nutritional case study according to the nursing process.\nSocial Issue boxes show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellness.\nHealth Debate boxes address the nurse’s response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concerns. \nCultural Considerations boxes show how to understand and respect the food and health customs of specific ethnic groups.\nKey terms and a glossary make it easy to learn key vocabulary and concepts.\\nNEW! Nursing Approach sections include Next Generation NCLEX® terminology as well as single-episode cases and questions, with answers on the Evolve website.\\nReview \nMaster the nurse’s role in implementing diet orders and teaching nutritional health