Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 2nd Edition

• Teaching for Self-Management boxes offer a guide to communicating follow-up care to patients and their families.
• Signs of Potential Complications boxes help you recognize the signs and symptoms of complications and provide immediate interventions.
• Procedure boxes offer easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions for maternity skills and procedures.
• Emergency boxes may be used for quick reference in critical situations.
• Nursing Alerts highlight critical information that must be considered when providing care.
• Medication Guides in an appendix provide a key reference for common drugs and their interactions.

• Updated content provides the most current practice guidelines, including expanded information on obesity, the late preterm infant, and fetal heart rate pattern identification.
• Safety Alerts highlight developing competencies related to safe nursing practice in conjunction with the QSEN initiative on quality and safety in nursing care.

Section 1: Pregnancy

Section 2: Selected Pregnancy Complications

Section 3: Intrapartum

Section 4: Selected Childbirth Complications

Section 5: Postpartum

Section 6: Selected Postpartum Complications

Section 7: The Newborn

Section 8: Selected Newborn Complications

Appendix A: Laboratory Values for Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women

Appendix B: Medication Guides

Appendix C: English-Spanish Translations

Bibliography

Index