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A complete guide to nutrition care for nurses. Nutrition and Diet Therapy for Nurses offers the perfect balance of the latest evidence-based content, readability, and current topics in nutrition. Building from foundational principles to medical therapies, the text provides nursing students with tools and resources they can use to integrate nutrition into the nursing care process and become a reliable source of nutrition information and care. The 2nd Edition includes reorganized chapters, expanded content, and a new feature on drug interactions woven throughout the text. For courses in nutrition and diet therapy. Pearson eText is an easy-to-use digital textbook that you can purchase on your own or instructors can assign for their course. The mobile app lets you keep on learning, no matter where your day takes you -- even offline. You can also add highlights, bookmarks, and notes in your Pearson eText to study how you like. NOTE: This ISBN is for the Pearson eText access card. Pearson eText is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. Before purchasing, check that you have the correct ISBN. To register for and use Pearson eText, you may also need a course invite link, which your instructor will provide. Follow the instructions provided on the access card to learn more.

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Sheila Buckley Tucker graduated with a BS in Food and Nutrition and an MA in Healthcare Administration from Framingham State College in Massachusetts. She is board certified in sports nutrition from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. As a registered dietitian for more than 25 years, Sheila has provided clinical nutrition care to patients and clients in a variety of settings, including as an inpatient clinical dietitian specializing in critical care, nutrition support, renal nutrition, cancer care, and medical/surgical care. She has also provided nutrition education as a consultant to corporate wellness programs and area colleges. She has more than 25 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels in several Boston area colleges and nursing schools. At Boston College, Sheila recently made the transition to full-time faculty after decades of a combining an on-campus clinical nutrition practice as the University's Executive Dietitian, Nutritionist for the Office of Health Promotion, and Performance Nutritionist for Athletics, along with teaching nutrition in the Connell School of Nursing. She is a contributing author to many nursing textbooks. Vera Dauffenbach has a bachelor's degree from Macalester College and a master's degree in nursing from Pace University. Her doctorate in educational leadership is from Western Michigan University. She has been a faculty member in the baccalaureate nursing programs at Grand View College in Des Moines and Maryville College (now University) in St. Louis. At present, she is an associate professor and director of the RN to BSN program at Bellin College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She has broad classroom and clinical teaching experience on all levels of the undergraduate curriculum, with a special interest in nutrition and pediatrics. At the graduate level, she teaches research and evidence-based practice. Her research interests relate to critical thinking and leadership development. She has contributed extensive NCLEX(R)-style test questions for nursing textbooks. She is a past board member of the Wisconsin League for Nursing and president of the Kappa Pi-at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.

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