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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