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In today's fast-paced healthcare world, it's crucial to have the information you need when you need it.
The Essential Pocket Guide for Clinical Nutrition Resized, Fourth Edition is a quick reference guide for dietitians, students, interns, and other health professionals actively engaged in clinical nutrition. The easily readable format incorporates tables and boxes for immediate access to evidence-based information on nutritional assessment, nutrition support, life-stage nutrition, and nutrition considerations for specific diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and gastrointestinal diseases. All-inclusive resources and relevant appendices such as laboratory assessment and food-drug interactions, save the clinician from carrying around separate resources. There is no comparable pocket guide on the market that includes this comprehensive coverage of clinical nutrition.
- ADIME-at-a-Glance boxes include sample ADIME notes and PES statements.
- Quick Reference tables and boxes in each chapter make essential information easy to locate.
- Convenient spiral-bound format allows for hands-free use since it lays flat while using.
- Concise coverage of major practice areas gives you the resources to confidently cover new cases or a colleague's patients.
- Each chapter's consistent format includes sections on disease process, treatment and nutritional intervention, and patient education.
- Inclusion of official guidelines from nationally recognized associations such as the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, National Kidney Foundation, and others
- All-inclusive resources and relevant appendices (such as lab assessment, food-drug interactions, and dietary supplement facts) save the clinician from carrying around separate resources.
Upper level undergraduate and graduate courses Medical Nutrition Therapy, Nutrition Care Process, Nutrition and Disease, and any Clinical Nutrition or experiential based course.
Indispensable resource and pocket guide for dietitians. (c) 2025 575 pages
About the author
Mary Width is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at Wayne State University. She teaches Nutritional Assessment, Advanced Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Management, and also coordinates the supervised practice for the dietetic students. Past work experiences include clinical nutrition, clinical management, food service management, long-term care consulting, and private counseling in the areas of childhood obesity and eating disorders. Mary is also Co-Director of Clinical Nutrition at the WSU School of Medicine. She currently serves as the website manager for both the Michigan Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Southeastern Michigan Dietetic Association (SEMDA). She was Past President and Membership Chair for several years for SEMDA, and Past President of the Michigan Nutrition and Dietetic Educators and Preceptors (MiNDEP) group.
