Nutrition For Nursing Practice Review Module

This review module is a component of the Comprehensive Assessment and Review Program and is designed to be used in conjunction with content area assessments that are administered in various formats.

"The mission of ATI's Content Mastery Series® review modules is to provide user-friendly compendiums of nursing knowledge that will: Help you locate important information quickly; Assist in your learning efforts; Provide exercises for applying your nursing knowledge; Facilitate your entry into the nursing profession as a newly licensed RN."--Page iii

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.

The Seventh Edition of this nursing-focused nutrition text has been updated to reflect the latest evidence-based practice and nutrition recommendations. Written in a user-friendly style, the text emphasizes what the nurse really needs to know in practice. Maintaining its nursing process focus and emphasis on patient teaching, this edition includes features to help readers integrate nutrition into nursing care such as sample Nursing Process tables, Case Studies in every chapter, and new Interactive Case Studies online. This is the tablet version which does not include access to the supplemental content mentioned in the text.

Reflecting the latest evidence-based practice and nutrition recommendations, the ninth edition of Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practiceprepares tomorrow’s nurses to confidently understand and apply nutrition theory for safe, effective client care throughout the nursing scope of practice. Engaging case studies and a concise, student-friendly format help nursing students easily master need-to-know information and facilitate nutrition at every step of the nursing process, from assessment and nursing diagnoses to implementation and evaluation

Discusses how to incorporate nutrition information into nursing care. Presents the fundamentals of nutrition, covering such topics as carbohydrates, protein, lipids, energy balance and weight control, vitamins, minerals, and fluid and electrolytes. Discusses potential adverse side effects of deficient and excessive intakes; consumption trends and future areas of research; nutrition during pregnancy, infancy and childhood; alterations in health, e.g. stress, surgery, and oncology, along with recommended dietary interventions; etc. New material for this third edition includes the current dietary guidelines for Americans; updated ADA exchange lists; key terms, key concepts, and focus on critical thinking; a new chapter on digestion, absorption, and metabolism; a new combined chapter on energy balance and weight control; and a new combined chapter on cancer and AIDS. For use by nursing students and practicing nurses.