Maternity Nursing - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 11th Edition

• Chronological organization of content follows a sequence from family issues, fetal development, pregnancy, labor, birth, and care of the newborn, to postpartum issues with special social, familial, and cultural considerations.
• Organization of concepts in each chapter by simple to complex and from health to illness makes it easier to locate and understand the material.
• Complete, concise coverage includes a table of physiologic and psychosocial changes throughout the pregnancy, unique content on CPR for the pregnant patient and infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy, a pictorial story of a vaginal birth, cultural considerations of pregnancy and maternal care, and nursing responses to loss, death, and grief.
• UNIQUE! A FREE Study Guide in the back of the book reinforces understanding with multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, scenario-based clinical situation questions, and online activities.
• Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions help in understanding how a care plan is developed, how to evaluate care of a patient, and how to apply your knowledge to clinical scenarios.
• Health Promotion boxes and content focus on family-centered care, health promotion, illness prevention, and women's health issues.
• Clinical Pathways use an interdisciplinary, collaborative-care approach in tracking interventions along a timeline from assessment to discharge and follow up.
• Online resources for further research and study are included at the end of each chapter.
• UNIQUE! LPN Threads make learning easier, featuring a 10th-grade reading level, key terms with phonetic pronunciations and text page references, chapter objectives, special features boxes, and full-color art, photographs, and design.

• Coverage of the latest advances in nursing care includes fetal heart rate monitoring during labor and delivery and revised diabetes classifications.
• Get Ready for the NCLEX^® Examination! section at the end of each chapter includes key points, review questions, and critical thinking questions for individual, small group, or classroom review.
• Safety Alert! boxes highlight 2011 Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals, with special consideration for serious and potentially fatal medication errors.
• Easily recognizable icons for standard steps are included in each skill (e.g., hand hygiene).
• UNIQUE! Icons in page margins point to relevant animations and video clips on the companion Evolve website.

Unit One: Social and Family Dynamics

1. Contemporary Maternity Care, Family, and Cultural Considerations

2. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

Unit Two: Development of the Fetus

3. Fetal Development

Unit Three: Pregnancy

4. Physiologic and Psychologic Changes During Pregnancy

5. Health Care and Fetal Assessment During Pregnancy

Unit Four: Labor and Birth

6. Process of Normal Labor

7. Nursing Care During Labor

8 . Management of Pain During Labor

Unit Five: The Newborn

9. Physiologic Adaptation of the Newborn and Nursing Assessment

10. Nursing Care of the Newborn

11. Newborn Feeding

Unit Six: Postpartum Assessment

12. Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care

Unit Seven: Complications of Childbearing

13. Health Problems Complicating Pregnancy

14. Complications of Labor and Birth

15. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Associated with Gestational Age and Development

16. The Newborn at Risk: Acquired and Congenital Conditions

17. Postpartum Complications

Unit Eight: Community-Based Care

18. The Pregnant Adolescent and Nursing Care in the Community

Unit Nine: Other Reproductive Issues

19. Family Planning and Infertility

20. Women's Health Issues

21. Complementary and Alternative Therapies

Appendix A: The Joint Commission's Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols

Appendix B: Commonly Used Abbreviations in Maternal and Pediatric Nursing

Appendix C: Common Spanish Phrases for Maternity and Pediatric Nursing

Appendix D: Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms

Appendix E: Conversion Tables

Appendix F: Selected Maternal and Newborn Laboratory Values

Appendix G: Transfer of Selected Drugs and Other Chemicals into Breast Milk

Appendix H: Answers to Review Questions for the NCLEX^® Examination

Bibliography and Reader References

Illustration Credits

Glossary

Index

Study Guide