Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Nutrition & Diet Therapy / Edition 2

by Mary Ann Hogan, Margaret M. Gingrich RN, MSN, Kate Willcutts MS, RD, CNSD, Evangeline DeLeon RN

Overview

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. 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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132437127
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	12/27/2006
Series:	Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews and Rationales Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.95(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Mary Ann Hogan, MSN, RN has been a nurse educator for 25 years, currently as a Clinical

Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in

diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs.A former item writer for

the CAT NCLEX-RN® exam,Ms. Hogan has been teaching review courses throughout

New England for the last 15 years. She also has contributed to a number of publications

in the areas of adult health, pharmacology, and fundamentals of nursing. She is a member

of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor

Society for Nursing.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Nutrition Basics 1

Chapter 2 Macronutrients 21

Chapter 3 Micronutrients 41

Chapter 4 Nutritional Biochemistry 83

Chapter 5 Nutrition Needs Across the Lifespan 105

Chapter 6 Nutrition Therapy for Eating Disorders, Burns, and Cardiac, Endocrine, and Gastrointestinal Disorders 155

Chapter 7 Nutrition Therapy for Immune, Liver, Musculoskeletal, Neurological, Renal, or Respiratory Disorders 188

Chapter 8 Nutritional Support Methods and Therapeutic Diets 231

Chapter 9 Nutritional Supplements and Weight Control Issues 261

Chapter 10 Nutritional Management of the Client with Multisystem Disorders 286

Appendix A Practice to Pass & Case Study Suggested Answers 311

Index 322