A Nursing Approach to Nutritional Care: Principles and Practice
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-0-632-01717-1 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of this book is to provide nurses with a background from which they may begin to take their place in the nutritional care team. In the book, the principles of nutrition are discussed and the text considers the nutrients, their properties and their metabolism. Also discussed are the components of foods in order to show the sources of nutrients and the basis of planning a healthy diet and meeting nutritional needs through the different stages of the lifespan. Diet and disease are assessed with regard to both the aetiology and the treatment of disease with the emphasis being placed on those conditions in which changes in nutritional status are common or for which dietary modification may be required.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Adult education
Illustrations
40 illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-632-01717-1 (9780632017171)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Energy production and the macronutrients; Vitamins; Minerals, electrolytes and fluid balance; Food as a source of nutrients; Nutrition as a determinant of health; Diagnostic assessment of nutritional status; The provision of nutritional care; Food in hospitals; Methods of nutritional care and support; Nutritional deficiency diseases; Metabolic response to physiological stress (trauma and infection); Diabetes mellitus and other endocrinological disorders; Cardiovascular/cerebrovascular disorders; Renal disease; Gastrointestinal disorders; Accessory organs of digestion; Obesity, anorexia nervosa and bulemia nervosa; Nutrition and cancer; Central nervous system; Food allergy; Drug nutrient international; Nutrition education.