This clear, concise and practical guide to therapeutic diets shows nurses how to integrate dietary considerations into their nursing care. It describes the dietary treatment of 98 specific diseases as well as the role of diet in cancer, burns and the peri-operative period. It also relates diet to the pathophysiology of the disease and other treatment modalities, including diet-drug interrelationships. Also provided are suggested nursing diagnoses related to nutritional or dietary problems.
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