Main description:

For courses in maternal-child nursing, care of women and children, and women's health, for both 4-year BSN-level courses and selected ADN-level (2-year) programs

A humanistic, holistic approach to thinking like a nurse
Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health: Across the Lifespan is a family-focused text that covers maternal-newborn nursing and women's health topics with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Relatable and engaging, the text is built upon the philosophy that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes, and that family members are partners in care. The holistic approach helps readers develop their clinical-reasoning skills, and prepare to practice nursing in an ever-changing healthcare environment.

Also available with MyNursingLab (R)
This title is also available with MyNursingLab-an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students in the Maternal/Newborn Nursing course and improve results. Its guided learning path is proven to help students think like a nurse as they move beyond memorization to true understanding through application.

NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyNursingLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyNursingLab, search the Pearson website. MyNursingLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyNursingLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Contents:

UNIT 1: Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing

Current Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing
Care of the Family in a Culturally Diverse Society

UNIT 2: Women's Health

Health Promotion of Women Across the Lifespan
Women's Health: Family Planning
Women's Health: Commonly Occurring Infections ?
Women's Health Problems
Women's Care: Social Issues
Violence Against Women

UNIT 3: Human Reproduction ????

The Reproductive System
Conception and Fetal Development
Special Reproductive Concerns: Infertility and Genetics

UNIT 4: Pregnancy

Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
Antepartum Nursing Assessment
The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
Adolescent Pregnancy
Maternal Nutrition
Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset
Assessment of Fetal Well-Being

UNIT 5: Birth

Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
Pharmacologic Pain Management
Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications
Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
Birth-Related Procedures

UNIT 6: The Newborn

Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth ?
Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
Newborn Nutrition
The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors

UNIT 7: Postpartum

Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care
Home Care of the Postpartum Family
Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family ?
The Postpartum Family at Risk ?

APPENDICES (ML)

Common Abbreviations in Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing
Conversions and Equivalents
Spanish Translations of English Phrases
Guidelines for Working with Deaf Clients and Interpreters
Sign Language for Healthcare Professionals
Actions and Effects of Selected Drugs During Breastfeeding

GLOSSARY
INDEX