Description
**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Maternal/Child**This comprehensive maternity book is now even better! Maternity and Women's Health Care, 13th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. In addition to emphasizing childbearing concerns like newborn care, it also addresses wellness promotion and management of women's health problems. In describing the continuum of care, it integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, and community-based care. New guidelines are incorporated with updated content throughout, focusing on prioritization of care and interprofessional care.- Expert authors of the market-leading maternity nursing textbook deliver the most accurate, up-to-date content.- Signs of Potential Complications highlight vital concerns, alerting you to signs and symptoms of complications and the immediate interventions to provide.- Cultural Considerations stress the importance of considering the beliefs and health practices of clients and their families from various cultures when providing care.- Medication Guides provide key information about commonly used medications with specific nursing implications.- Medication Alerts highlighted and integrated within the content alert readers to critical drug information that must be considered to provide safe client care.- Safety Alerts highlighted and integrated within the content draw attention to developing competencies related to safe nursing practice.- Nursing Care Plans identify priority client problems and concerns, along with appropriate interventions and rationales.- Community Activity boxes focus on maternal and newborn activities that can be pursued in local community settings and online and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings, including assisting clients in locating resources.- Emergency boxes provide information about various emergency situations and offer a quick reference in critical situations.- Teaching for Self-Management boxes highlight important information that nurses need to communicate to clients and families for follow-up care.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction to Maternity and Women's Health CareChapter 1: 21st-Century Maternity and Women's Health NursingChapter 2: Community Care: The Family and CultureChapter 3: Nursing and GenomicsPart 2: Women's HealthChapter 4: Assessment and Health PromotionChapter 5: Violence Against WomenChapter 6: Reproductive System ConcernsChapter 7: Sexually Transmitted and Other InfectionsChapter 8: Contraception and AbortionChapter 9: InfertilityChapter 10: Problems of the BreastChapter 11: Structural Disorders and Neoplasms of the Reproductive SystemPart 3: PregnancyChapter 12: Conception and Fetal DevelopmentChapter 13: Anatomy and Physiology of PregnancyChapter 14: Nursing Care of the Family During PregnancyChapter 15: Maternal NutritionPart 4: Labor and BirthChapter 16: Labor and Birth ProcessesChapter 17: Maximizing Comfort for the Laboring PersonChapter 18: Fetal Assessment During LaborChapter 19: Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and BirthPart 5: Postpartum Chapter 20: Postpartum Anatomical and Physiologic ChangesChapter 21: Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum PeriodChapter 22: Transition to ParenthoodPart 6: The NewbornChapter 23: Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the NewbornChapter 24: Nursing Care of the Newborn and FamilyChapter 25: Newborn Nutrition and FeedingPart 7: Complications of PregnancyChapter 26: Assessment of High-Risk PregnancyChapter 27: Hypertensive DisordersChapter 28: Hemorrhagic DisordersChapter 29: Endocrine and Metabolic DisordersChapter 30: Medical-Surgical DisordersChapter 31: Mental Health Disorders and Substance AbuseChapter 32: Labor and Birth at RiskChapter 33: Postpartum ComplicationsPart 8: Newborn ComplicationsChapter 34: Nursing Care of the High-Risk NewbornChapter 35: Acquired Problems of the NewbornChapter 36: Hemolytic Disorders and Congenital AnomaliesChapter 37: Perinatal Loss, Bereavement, and Grief
