Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Nutrition**

Master 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.Applying Content Knowledge and Critical Thinking: Clinical Applications case studies　help you apply nutrition principles to real-world practice situationsPersonal 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 knownTeaching Tool boxes include strategies for providing nutrition counseling to patientsThe Nursing Approach boxes analyze a realistic nutritional case study according to the nursing processSocial Issue boxes show how ethical, social, and community concerns can influence health and wellnessHealth Debate boxes address the nurse’s response to differing opinions or controversies about food, nutrition, and health concernsCultural Considerations boxes show how to understand and respect the food and health customs of specific ethnic groupsKey terms and a glossary make it easy to learn key vocabulary and conceptsNEW! Nursing Approach sections include Next Generation NCLEX® terminology as well as single-episode cases and questions, with answers on the Evolve website