Full Description
Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 8th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show you how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. With easy-to-understand language, this updated text uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making.?Questions for the Next Generation NCLEX© in the text help you prepare for the exam.
Contributing content from known experts in the field of maternal and women's health
Unfolding case studies help you apply what you've learned to practice
Safety checks integrated into the content help you develop competencies related to safe nursing practice
Chapter summaries appear at the end of each chapter and help you review core content in each chapter while on the go
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
Application of Nursing Process sections help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations
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 ways to respond when encountering communication blocks
Knowledge Check helps you assess your mastery of key content
Glossary provides definitions of all key terms
NEW! Critical Care Obstetrics chapter features the latest information on this vital topic
NEW! Clinical judgment content and questions for the Next Generation NCLEX® help you prepare for the exam and clinical practice
Contents
Part 1: Foundations for Nursing Care of Childbearing Families
1. Clinical Judgment and the Nursing Process
2. Social, Cultural, and Ethical Issues
3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing
Part 2: The Family Before Birth
5. Conception and Prenatal Development
6. Adaptations to Pregnancy
7. Antepartum Assessment, Care, and Education
8. Nutrition for Childbearing
9. Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Assessment During the Antepartum Period
10. Complications of Pregnancy
11. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs
Part 3: 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 4: The Family Following Birth
17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care
18. Postpartum Complications
19. Critical Care Obstetrics
20. Newborn: Processes of Adaptation
21. Assessment of the Newborn
22. Care of the Newborn
23. Infant Feeding
24. High Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development
25. High Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions
Part 5: Women's Health Care
26. Family Planning
27. Infertility
28. Women's Health
