Nursing Key Topics Review: Maternity - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by Elsevier Inc

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ISBN: 9780323449267

Publication Date: 10-03-2016

Page Count: 360

Imprint: Elsevier

List Price: $29.99

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Prepare your students for success in nursing school and on the NCLEX^® exam with Nursing Key Topics Review: Maternity! To make study more efficient, this quick review focuses on the most critical, practical, and relevant maternal nursing information. And for convenience, a mobile web app with audio summaries lets students review while on the go! Concise coverage includes topics from pregnancy, labor, and birth to postpartum and newborn nursing care. Summary tables and quick, bulleted lists make it easier to glance through and remember concepts. Best of all, it’s easy for students to assess their understanding as they go along — because key maternity content is always immediately followed by review questions with correct answers and rationales.

Key Features
- Emphasis on critical, practical, and relevant information helps busy students study and learn maternity nursing in the most time-efficient way possible.
- Quick-access format reflects students’ feedback, and their desire for quality content sprinkled with review questions.
- Audio summaries on a mobile web app make it easy for students to review anytime, anywhere.
- NCLEX^® exam-style review questions include answers and rationales, allowing students to assess their understanding and retention of the material.
- Bulleted lists let students see key content at a glance, allowing for quick comprehension.
- VST and 3PP versions are also available for bundling with other titles.
- Summary tables and illustrations make learning and review easier.
Contents
1. Conception and Fetal Development
2. Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy
3. Nursing Care of the Family During Pregnancy
4. Maternal and Fetal Nutrition
5. Assessment of High Risk Pregnancy
6. High Risk Complications of Pregnancy
7. Mental Health Disorders and Substance Abuse
8. Labor and Birth Processes
9. Maximizing Comfort for the Laboring Woman
10. Fetal Assessment During Labor
11. Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and Birth
12. Labor and Birth Complications
13. Postpartum Physiologic Changes
14. Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum Period
15. Transition to Parenthood
16. Postpartum Complications
17. Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family
18. Newborn Nutrition and Feeding
19. Newborn Complications
20. Perinatal Loss, Bereavement, and Grief
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