Make essential nutrition clear and clinically relevant

For nursing faculty, teaching nutrition often means doing more than covering course content. Students may arrive with limited biology or anatomy and physiology knowledge, making it harder to grasp nutrition concepts, prioritize essential information, and connect theory to patient care.

Dudek’s Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice, 10th Edition, and Lippincott® CoursePoint help faculty create a clearer bridge from foundational learning to clinical application. The streamlined text focuses on the evidence-based nutrition knowledge nurses need, with an improved organization that makes complex content easier to navigate. Unfolding case studies, Nursing process tables, clinical prompts, and knowledge checks reinforce how nutrition supports assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. CoursePoint adds adaptive quizzes, interactive case studies, animations, and videos so students can engage with concepts in multiple ways and reinforce learning over time.

This flexible combination helps faculty address varied student readiness, keeps the course focused, and develops students’ ability to make informed, patient-centered nutrition decisions across the lifespan and wellness–illness continuum.

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Dudek's Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice, 10th Edition

Dudek's Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice, 10th Edition

Authors: Mary Width, MS, RD, FAND and Tonia Reinhard, MS, RD, FAND
Copyright: 2027
Available: Print, eBook, CoursePoint

Dudek's Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice, 10th Edition delivers the essential nutrition knowledge nursing students need to support patient care across the lifespan. This streamlined, evidence-based text helps students quickly grasp key concepts and apply them through case-based learning, nursing process integration, and current clinical guidelines.

Feature highlights – see preface to view all features:

  • Unfolding Case Studies: Reinforce clinical judgment by applying nutrition concepts to realistic patient scenarios.
  • Nursing Process: Connect nutrition theory to nursing practice with guidance aligned to the Nursing Process.
  • How Do You Respond?: Build critical-thinking skills through decision-making opportunities embedded throughout the text.
  • Check Your Understanding: Strengthen retention and self-assessment with targeted concept reviews.
  • Current evidence-based guidelines: Learn current nutrition recommendations based on the latest evidence and clinical guidance.
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Bring your course to life with CoursePoint

When you pair trusted Lippincott® content with CoursePoint and our practice products, you give students more than an eBook. You give them a better way to learn.

  • Lippincott® CoursePoint is the leading digital curriculum solution for nursing education. It combines trusted eBook content with videos, adaptive quizzing, and interactive learning resources — all supported by in-depth reporting that gives educators actionable insights to personalize learning.
    Feature highlights include:
    • PrepU delivers personalized adaptive quizzing that meets students at their current level of understanding, helps identify knowledge gaps, and supports targeted remediation before exams.
    • Interactive eBooks allow students to access the title anytime, take notes, and highlight text; with the read-aloud feature, learning is convenient.
    • One-Minute Nurse videos simplify complex nursing concepts into quick, digestible videos to enhance understanding and retention.
    • Stedman’s® Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing features more than 56,000 medical terms and thousands of images to illustrate key medical terms and concepts.

Our practice solutions blend clinical judgment development and can be combined with CoursePoint in one course with one gradebook.

  • vSim for Nursing helps students apply foundational knowledge in realistic virtual patient simulations. (included in CoursePoint+)
  • Lippincott® Client Cases for Clinical Judgment strengthens clinical reasoning, prioritization, and decision-making through realistic patient scenarios and unfolding EHRs.
  • Lippincott® DocuCare develops documentation, EHR, and professional communication skills through authentic clinical workflows.

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