Main description:

This family-focused text that provides comprehensive coverage of maternal-newborn nursing and women's health with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Accurate, readable, personal, and engaging, OLDS' MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING & WOMEN'S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN, 9/e reflects a deep understanding of pregnancy and birth as normal life processes, and of family members as partners in care. This edition includes a deeper discussion of childbirth at risk; four new nursing care plans; updated coverage of contraception, complementary/alternative therapies, and much more. New teaching features include Professionalism in Practice and Health Promotion Education boxes, Clinical Judgment case studies, and Critical Thinking questions. This edition also aligns more closely with AACN's Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.

Contents:

UNIT 1: Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing 1. Current Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing 2. Care of the Family in a Culturally Diverse Society 3. Complementary and Alternative Therapies UNIT 2: Women's Health 4. Health Promotion of Women Across the Lifespan 5. Women's Health: Family Planning 6. Women's Health: Commonly Occurring Infections 7. Women's Health Problems 8. Women's Care: Social Issues 9. Violence Against Women UNIT 3: Human Reproduction 10. The Reproductive System 11. Conception and Fetal Development 12. Special Reproductive Concerns: Infertility and Genetics UNIT 4: Pregnancy 13. Preparation for Parenthood 14. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy 15. Antepartum Nursing Assessment 16. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care 17. Adolescent Pregnancy 18. Maternal Nutrition 19. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems 20. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset 21. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being UNIT 5: Birth 22. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth 23. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment 24. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care 25. Pain Management During Labor 26. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications 27. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications 28. Birth-Related Procedures UNIT 6: The Newborn 29. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth 30. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn 31. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care 32. Newborn Nutrition 33. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth 34. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors UNIT 7: Postpartum 35. Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment 36. The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care 37. Home Care of the Postpartum Family 38. Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family 39. The Postpartum Family at Risk APPENDICES A. Common Abbreviations in Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing B. Conversions and Equivalents C. Spanish Translations of English Phrases D. Guidelines for Working with Deaf Clients and Interpreters E. Sign Language for Healthcare Professionals F. Actions and Effects of Selected Drugs During Breastfeeding GLOSSARY INDEX