Nutrition Nursing Book From Made Incredibly Easy! UK Editions

This book breaks down challenging clinical concepts - the ones that we know can be difficult to grasp - and presents them in a refreshingly original, humorous, engaging series of books.

Nutrition plays an important role in health promotion, disease prevention and treatment in a range of different settings including the NHS and private sector. To provide the best care and advice for people, you must have a sound knowledge of nutritional principles. You must also be able to apply that knowledge in your practice and care and impart that knowledge to both patients and individuals so they make healthier food choices for themselves.

The nutrition nursing book takes into account that nutrition is a complex subject and provides clear descriptions of nutrition-related topics. Understanding how to provide the best nutritional care requires you to learn many concepts. Because nutrients come from food, you need to learn what foods should be eaten, how different foods can make up a balanced diet and which portion sizes are appropriate. A good understanding of anatomy and physiology is essential for your understanding of what happens to food during digestion and how it is distributed around the body.

Split into three parts, Part one provides you with an introduction to nutrition, offering a concise yet hearty review of such topics as nutrition basics, digestion and absorption and essential nutrients. Part two brings the topic closer to the clinical environment. Covering nutritional screening including identifying at-risk patients, taking dietary history, evaluating weight and body size and documenting nutritional screening findings. Part three, clinical nutrition not only covers common nutritional and GI disorders, such as obesity, anorexia, dysphagia, GORD and lactose intolerance. But also looks at nutritional considerations for patients with cardiovascular, renal and neurological disorders, diabetes, HIV disease and such special conditions like burns and trauma.

Kathy Martyn has ensured that the nutrition nursing book takes a simplified and light-hearted approach to nutrition that explains its complex concepts in clear, concise, and interesting language, making information easy to learn and most important, remember.

The nutrition nursing book provides pharmacology facts in this easy-to-understand approach:

• Fundamentals such as digestion and absorption
• Assessment, with a chapter on lifespan considerations
• Chapters on clinical nutrition, with information on GI disorders, eating disorders, cardiovascular disorders, Diabetes Mellitus and much more

This unique book is stuffed with features that make learning about this challenging subject easy and fun:

• Memory joggers – provide illustrations and quick quizzes which aid and test information recall
• Nutri Tips – give practice pointers on nutritional care
• Menu maven – offers sample menus for special diets
• Lifespan lunchbox – points out important age-related nutritional considerations

Unique to the UK… This first UK edition reflects on the latest UK guidance and advice:

• Draws on and refers to the work of the Food Standards Agency, NICE and the NHS
• Includes dietary guidelines based on the Food Standards Agency and the Eatwell be well programme

Kathy Martyn SRN, DIP.NS, BSc (Hons), Bed (Hons), MSc adopted the book for the UK to be in line with the UK nursing rules and regulations.

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