Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing

Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 8th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show you how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. With easy-to-understand language, this updated text uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making.?Questions for the Next Generation NCLEX(c) in the text help you prepare for the exam.

  • Contributing content from known experts in the field of maternal and women's health.
  • Unfolding case studies help you apply what you've learned to practice.
  • Safety checks integrated into the content help you develop competencies related to safe nursing practice.
  • Chapter summaries appear at the end of each chapter and help you review core content in each chapter while on the go.
  • Patient teaching boxes provide teaching guidelines, including communication guides, directed at patients and families.
  • Critical to Remember boxes highlight and summarize need-to-know information.
  • Application of Nursing Process sections help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations.
  • Updated! Drug guides list important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications.
  • Procedure boxes provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills with rationales for each step.
  • UNIQUE! Therapeutic Communications boxes present realistic nurse-patient dialogues, identifying communication techniques and showing ways to respond when encountering communication blocks.
  • Knowledge Check helps you assess your mastery of key content.
  • Glossary provides definitions of all key terms.
  • NEW! Critical Care Obstetrics chapter features the latest information on this vital topic.
  • NEW! Clinical judgment content and questions for the Next Generation NCLEX(R) help you prepare for the exam and clinical practice.
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Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing

Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 8th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show you how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. With easy-to-understand language, this updated text uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making.?Questions for the Next Generation NCLEX(c) in the text help you prepare for the exam.

  • Contributing content from known experts in the field of maternal and women's health.
  • Unfolding case studies help you apply what you've learned to practice.
  • Safety checks integrated into the content help you develop competencies related to safe nursing practice.
  • Chapter summaries appear at the end of each chapter and help you review core content in each chapter while on the go.
  • Patient teaching boxes provide teaching guidelines, including communication guides, directed at patients and families.
  • Critical to Remember boxes highlight and summarize need-to-know information.
  • Application of Nursing Process sections help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations.
  • Updated! Drug guides list important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications.
  • Procedure boxes provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills with rationales for each step.
  • UNIQUE! Therapeutic Communications boxes present realistic nurse-patient dialogues, identifying communication techniques and showing ways to respond when encountering communication blocks.
  • Knowledge Check helps you assess your mastery of key content.
  • Glossary provides definitions of all key terms.
  • NEW! Critical Care Obstetrics chapter features the latest information on this vital topic.
  • NEW! Clinical judgment content and questions for the Next Generation NCLEX(R) help you prepare for the exam and clinical practice.
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Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 8th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show you how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. With easy-to-understand language, this updated text uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making.?Questions for the Next Generation NCLEX(c) in the text help you prepare for the exam.

  • Contributing content from known experts in the field of maternal and women's health.
  • Unfolding case studies help you apply what you've learned to practice.
  • Safety checks integrated into the content help you develop competencies related to safe nursing practice.
  • Chapter summaries appear at the end of each chapter and help you review core content in each chapter while on the go.
  • Patient teaching boxes provide teaching guidelines, including communication guides, directed at patients and families.
  • Critical to Remember boxes highlight and summarize need-to-know information.
  • Application of Nursing Process sections help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations.
  • Updated! Drug guides list important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications.
  • Procedure boxes provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills with rationales for each step.
  • UNIQUE! Therapeutic Communications boxes present realistic nurse-patient dialogues, identifying communication techniques and showing ways to respond when encountering communication blocks.
  • Knowledge Check helps you assess your mastery of key content.
  • Glossary provides definitions of all key terms.
  • NEW! Critical Care Obstetrics chapter features the latest information on this vital topic.
  • NEW! Clinical judgment content and questions for the Next Generation NCLEX(R) help you prepare for the exam and clinical practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780323827386
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date: 01/23/2023
Edition description: 8th ed.
Pages: 928
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations for Nursing Care of Childbearing Families

  1. Maternity and Women’s Health Care Today
  2. The Nurse’s Role in Maternity and Women’s Health Care
  3. Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues
  4. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
  5. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing
  6. Part II: The Family Before Birth

  7. Conception and Prenatal Development
  8. Physiologic Adaptations to Pregnancy
  9. Psychosocial Adaptations to Pregnancy
  10. Nutrition for Childbearing
  11. Antepartal Fetal Assessment
  12. Perinatal Education
  13. Part III: The Family During Birth

  14. Processes of Birth
  15. Nursing Care During Labor and Birth
  16. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance
  17. Pain Management During Childbirth
  18. Nursing Care During Obstetric Procedures
  19. Part IV: The Family Following Birth

  20. Postpartum Physiologic Adaptations
  21. Postpartum Psychosocial Adaptations
  22. Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation
  23. Assessment of the Normal Newborn
  24. Care of the Normal Newborn
  25. Infant Feeding
  26. Home Care of the Infant
  27. Part V: Families at Risk during the Childbearing Period

  28. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs
  29. Complications of Pregnancy
  30. Concurrent Disorders During Pregnancy
  31. Intrapartum Complications
  32. Postpartum Maternal Complications
  33. High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development
  34. High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions
  35. Part VI: Women’s Health Care

  36. Family Planning
  37. Infertility
  38. Preventive Care for Women
  39. Women’s Health Problems

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