Maternity, Newborn, & Women's Health Nursing reflects a progressive, life-cycle orientation toward the nursing care of women, and helps you develop the skills every maternity and women's health nurse needs to practice with confidence.

Features:

• Progressive Case Studies at the start of each chapter provide illustrated scenarios that highlight chapter content
• An exciting art program includes more than 500 illustrations and figures, providing an engaging format for viusual learning
• Collaborative Care guidelines review each phase of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
• NIC/NOC Boxes summarize key interventions and outcome criteria relevant to each chapter
• Nursing procedures provide stepwise, illustrated guidance to specific techniques and skills throughout the text
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Boxes help you broaden therapeutic options, increase awareness of potential problems, and answer client questions about alternative treatments
• Teaching Tips promote client and family education
• Pharmacology Boxes familiarize you with the key features of currently used medications and administration
• Assessment Tools help you elicit clinically relevant information from the client's health history and highlight the essentials of a thorough physical examination
• Review Questions at the end of every chapter are posited in NCLEX-style to test your knowledge
• Questions to Ponder challenge you to apply critical concepts to real-world scenarios

Contents

Foundations of Maternal, Newbor, and Women's Health Care

• Philosophy and Framework for Women's Reproductive and Sexual Health
• Health Promotion
• Nutrition for Adolescent and Adult Women
• Medical Alterations in Women During Adolescence and Adulthood
• Mental Health Concerns for Women in Adolescence and Adulthood
• Sexuality and Reproduction
• Family Formation

Special Reproductive and Health Concerns

• Fertility Control and Contraception
• Voluntary Pregnancy Termination
• Fertility Challenges
• Genetics, Embryology, and Preconceptual/Prenatal Assessment and Screening

Pregnancy

• Process of Pregnancy
• High-Risk Pregnancy
• Educational Preparation for Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenthood

Labor and Childbirth

• Labor and Childbirth
• High-Risk Labor and Childbirth
• Pharmacologic Pain Management of Labor

Postpartum Period and Newborn Care

• Fourth Stage of Labor and Postpartum Period
• The High-Risk Postpartum Woman
• The Healthy Newborn
• Newborn Nutrition
• The High-Risk Newborn

Menopause and Beyond

• The Menopausal Experience
• The Older Postmenopausal Woman

Index

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