Study Guide for Foundations of Maternal Newborn and Womens Health Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 7th Edition

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PART I:  FOUNDATIONS FOR NURSING CARE OF THE CHILDBEARING FAMILIES 1. Maternity and Women’s Health Care Today 2. Social, Ethical and Legal Issues 3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology 4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing

PART II: THE FAMILY BEFORE BIRTH 5. Conception and Prenatal Development 6. Maternal Adaptations to Pregnancy 7. Antepartum Assessment, Care and Education 8. Nutrition for Childbearing 9. Assessing the Fetus: Prenatal Screening and Diagnostic Testing and Antepartum Fetal Testing 10. Complications of Pregnancy 11. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs

PART III: THE FAMILY DURING BIRTH 12. Processes of Birth 13. Pain management during Childbirth 14. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance 15. Nursing Care During Labor and Birth 16. Intrapartum Complications

PART IV: THE FAMILY FOLLOWING BIRTH 17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care 18. Postpartum Maternal Complications 19. Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation 20. Assessment of the Normal Newborn 21. Care of the Normal Newborn 22. Infant Feeding 23. High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development 24. High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions

PART VI: WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE 25. Family Planning 26. Infertility 27. Women’s Health

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