Full Description
Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of nutrition. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post-tests with rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts. Unique to Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series, a comprehensive CD-ROM and Companion Website, available free of charge, provide additional review. KEY TOPICS: Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering nutrition basics, needs across the lifespan, drug-nutrient interactions, nutritional support in cardiac, pulmonary, renal and other disorders, and much more. MARKET: For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.
Contents
Chapter 1 Nutrition Basics 1Chapter 2 Macronutrients 21Chapter 3 Micronutrients 41Chapter 4 Nutritional Biochemistry 83Chapter 5 Nutrition Needs Across the Lifespan 105Chapter 6 Nutrition Therapy for Eating Disorders, Burns, and Cardiac, Endocrine, and Gastrointestinal Disorders 155Chapter 7 Nutrition Therapy for Immune, Liver, Musculoskeletal, Neurological, Renal, or Respiratory Disorders 188Chapter 8 Nutritional Support Methods and Therapeutic Diets 231Chapter 9 Nutritional Supplements and Weight Control Issues 261Chapter 10 Nutritional Management of the Client with Multisystem Disorders 286Appendix A Practice to Pass & Case Study Suggested Answers 311Index 322
