"The first book to cover diet nutrition therapy as it pertains to advanced practice nursing, Diet Therapy in Advanced Practice Nursing: Nutrition Prescriptions for Improved Patient Outcomes is a concise compilation of best nutrition practices for specific disease states. The authors are Registered Dietician Educators recognized as national experts on the particular diseases and illnesses covered. Features - Organized by disease states, Focuses on nutrition-related prevention and therapeutic strategies for disease states, Valuable to both students and licensed practitioners"--Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Introduction to Nutrition Science, Chapter 2: Counseling: Nutrition Status and RiskAssessment, Chapter 3: Weight Management, Chapter 4: Musculoskeletal System Diseases, Chapter 5: Nutrition Support: Tube Feeding and Total Parenteral Nutrition, Chapter 6: Cardiovascular Diseases, Chapter 7: Celiac Disease and Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Chapter 8: Diabetes, Chapter 9: Metabolic Stress: Burns & Surgery, Cancer & HIV/AIDS, Chapter 10: Pregnancy and Breastfeeding, Chapter 11: Renal and Hepatobiliary Diseases, Chapter 12: Alternative and Complementary Nutrition Therapies.

Diet by design : healthy meal planning -- Face-to-face : nutrition screening, assessment, and counseling techniques -- Finding your weigh : mastering weight management -- From infants to ancients : nutrition throughout the lifecycle -- Matters of the heart : nutrition and cardiovascular disease -- A not-so-sweet metabolic disruption : diabetes mellitus -- A pain in the gut : nutrition in gastrointestinal disorders -- Blood and bones : nutrition in musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatic disease, and anemias -- Nutrition in hepatobiliary, pancreatic, and kidney disease -- Skin, surgery, and stress : nutrition in metabolic stress, cancer, and HIV/AIDS -- When food won't do : nutrition support -- Nutrition as a complementary and alternative medicine.