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 Care1. 21st Century Maternity and Women's Health Nursing2. Community Care: The Family and Culture3. Nursing and GenomicsPart 2. Women's Health4. Assessment and Health Promotion5. Violence Against Women6. Reproductive System Concerns7. Sexually Transmitted and Other Infections8. Contraception and Abortion9. Infertility10. Problems of the Breast11. Structural Disorders and Neoplasms of the Reproductive SystemPart 3. Pregnancy12. Conception and Fetal Development13. Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy14. Nursing Care of the Family During Pregnancy 15. Maternal Nutrition Part 4. Labor and Birth16. Labor and Birth Processes17. Maximizing Comfort for The Laboring Woman18. Fetal Assessment During Labor19. Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and BirthPart 5. Postpartum20. Postpartum Physiologic Changes21. Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum Period22. Transition to ParenthoodPart 6. The Newborn23. Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn24. Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family25. Newborn Nutrition and FeedingPart 7. Complications of Pregnancy26. Assessment of High-Risk Pregnancy 27. Hypertensive Disorders28. Hemorrhagic Disorders 29. Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders30. Medical-Surgical Disorders31. Mental Health Disorders and Substance Abuse32. Labor and Birth Complications33. Postpartum ComplicationsPart 8. Newborn Complications34. Nursing Care of the High-Risk Newborn35. Acquired Problems of the Newborn36. Hemolytic Disorders and Congenital Anomalies37. Perinatal Loss, Bereavement, and GriefGlossary
