Full Description
Accurate, readable, and up-to-date, this "high-tech, high-touch" text presents pregnancy and childbirth as normal life processes with family members as co-participants in care. CONTEMPORARY MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING, 8/e thoroughly illuminates all aspects of maternal-newborn nursing and many opportunities for nurses to make a difference in a changing healthcare environment. After introducing key concepts, it progresses through the steps of the nursing process, clearly delineating nurses' roles throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, the newborn period, and postpartum care. For each, it presents basic theory followed by chapters on assessment and care for essentially healthy women or infants, and then by complications and treatment. Recurring themes include evidence-based practice, critical thinking, clinical decision-making, community-based care, patient and family teaching, safety, cultural competence, complementary/alternative therapies, and health promotion. This edition's significant updates include revisions reflecting the latest recommendations of AACN Baccalaureate Essentials, QSEN, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and Healthy People 2020.
Contents
PART 1. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS 1. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Care 2. Culture and the Childbearing Family 3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology 4. Conception and Fetal Development PART 2. WOMEN: THE REPRODUCTIVE YEARS 5. Health Promotion for Women 6. Common Gynecologic Problems 7. Families with Special Reproductive Concerns 8. Preparation for Parenthood PART 3. PREGNANCY AND THE FAMILY 9. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy 10. Antepartum Nursing Assessment 11. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care 12. Maternal Nutrition 13. Adolescent Pregnancy 14. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being 15. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems 16. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset PART 4. BIRTH AND THE FAMILY 17. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth 18. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment 19. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care 20. Pharmacologic Management of Pain 21. Childbirth at Risk: Pre-Labor Comications 22. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Comications 23. Birth-Related Procedures PART 5. THE NEWBORN 24. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth 25. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn 26. Normal Newborn: Needs and Care 27. Newborn Nutrition 28. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth 29. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors PART 6. POSTPARTUM 30. Postpartum Adaptation and Nursing Assessment 31. The Postpartum Family: Early Care Needs and Home Care 32. The Postpartum Family at Risk
