Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing / Edition 7

by Sharon Smith Murray MSN, RN, C, Emily Slone McKinney MSN, RN, C

Overview

Known for its user-friendly, easy-to-understand coverage of complex concepts, this outstanding textbook provides all the information you need to provide competent nursing care to women and newborns. Step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions help you quickly master key skills and techniques. The importance of understanding family, culture, client teaching, communication, and clinical decision making is emphasized throughout. This edition also features a new title that reflects its expanded coverage of women’s health issues.

• More than 30 Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions help you to apply the nursing process to clinical situations and provide models for effective client and family care.
• UNIQUE! Communication Cues provide guidance for interpreting client and family statements and behaviors.
• UNIQUE! Therapeutic Communication boxes illustrate actual client and family dialogues that can be used in clinical practice.
• Procedures provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills and procedures, with rationales for each step.
• Critical Thinking Exercises present realistic clinical situations and challenge you to prioritize and think critically.
• Check Your Reading questions at the end of each section help you assess your mastery of key content.
• Drug Guides outline important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications.
• UNIQUE! Want to Know Boxes offer extensive client education guidelines for maternity and women’s health settings.

• A new chapter on Preventive Care for Women emphasizes health promotion and health maintenance throughout the childbearing years and beyond, including the latest health screening recommendations.
• Evidence-based practice boxes reinforce the importance of integrating research-based practice guidelines into practice.
• Updated coverage includes current research on hot topics in today’s practice, including elective inductions, cesarean deliveries, and the late preterm infant.
• Integrated electronic features enhance learning with interactive multimedia content such as video clips and animations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323398947
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/23/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	880
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

PART I:  FOUNDATIONS FOR NURSING CARE OF THE CHILDBEARING FAMILIES

1. Maternity and Women’s Health Care Today

2. Social, Ethical and Legal Issues

3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing

PART II: THE FAMILY BEFORE BIRTH

5. Conception and Prenatal Development

6. Maternal Adaptations to Pregnancy

7. Antepartum Assessment, Care and Education

8. Nutrition for Childbearing

9. Assessing the Fetus

10. Complications of Pregnancy

11. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs

PART III: 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 IV: THE FAMILY FOLLOWING BIRTH

17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care

18. Postpartum Maternal Complications

19. Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation

20. Assessment of the Normal Newborn

21. Care of the Normal Newborn

22. Infant Feeding

23. High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development

24. High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions

PART VI: WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE

25. Family Planning

26. Infertility

27. Women’s Health Care

Appendixes

A. Use of Drugs and Botanical Preparations during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

B. Answers to Knowledge Check

C. Answers to Critical Thinking Exercises

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