Foundations of Maternal-Newborn & Women's Health Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 7th Edition

• Safety checks integrated into the content help you develop competencies related to safe nursing practice.
• Unfolding case studies help you apply what you’ve learned to practice.
• UPDATED Evidence-Based Practice boxes highlight the latest research and the most current QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) practice guidelines for quality care.
• 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.
• Critical Thinking exercises focus on clinical situations designed to test your skills in prioritizing and critical thinking.
• Nursing Care Plans help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations.
• Chapter summaries appear at the end of each chapter and help you review core content in each chapter while on the go.
• 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 to respond when encountering communication blocks.
• Knowledge check helps you assess your mastery of key content.
• Glossary provides definitions of all key terms.

• NEW! Reorganized content integrates complications into standard family care, includes new sections on obesity, and recommendations for infant safe sleep environment and reductions of SIDS risk. 
• NEW! Contributing content from known experts in the field of Maternal and Women’s health include a former AWHONN president.

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

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 Care

Appendixes

A. Use of Drugs and Botanical Preparations during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

B. Answers to Knowledge Check

C. Answers to Critical Thinking Exercises

Glossary