Full Description
This popular, user-friendly text gives readers the necessary introduction and step-by-step instruction in assessments and interventions that they need for efficient, clinical performance. "Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 3rd Edition" carefully integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, client teaching, communication and critical thinking all into the overall continuum of nursing care.
Contents
FOUNDATIONS FOR NURSING CARE OF CHILDBEARING FAMILIES* Maternity Care Today * The Nurse's Role in Maternity Care * Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues * Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology * Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing * THE FAMILY BEFORE BIRTH * Conception and Prenatal Development * Physiologic Adaptations to Pregnancy * Psychosocial Adaptations to Pregnancy * Nutrition for Childbearing * Fetal Diagnostic Tests * Perinatal Education * THE FAMILY DURING BIRTH * The Processes of Birth * Nursing Care During Labor and Birth * Intrapartum Fetal Assessment * Pain Management During Childbirth * Nursing Care During Obstetric Procedures * THE FAMILY AFTER BIRTH * Postpartum Physiologic Adaptations * Postpartum Psychosocial Adaptations * Normal Newborn: The Processes of Adaptation * Assessment of the Normal Newborn * Care of the Normal Newborn * Infant Feeding * Home Care of the Infant * FAMILIES AT RISK DURING THE CHILDBEARING PERIOD * The Childbearing Family with Special Needs * Complications of Pregnancy * Concurrent Disorders During Pregnancy * Intrapartum Complications * Postpartum Maternal Complications * High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development * High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions * OTHER REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES * Family Planning * Infertility * Women's Health Care *APPENDIXES
