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. This is a 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, it 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 features include Professionalism in Practice and Health Promotion Education boxes, Clinical Judgment case studies, and Critical Thinking questions. This edition also pays special attention to aligning with the AACN's Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.

Contents:

1. Glossary

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2. Current Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing

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3. Care of the Family in a Culturally Diverse Society

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 41

4. Health Promotion of Women Across the Lifespan

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 63

5. Women's Health: Family Planning

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 85

6. Women's Health: Commonly Occurring Infections

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 105

7. Women's Health Problems

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 123

8. Complementary and Alternative Therapies

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 153

9. Women's Care: Social Issues

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 169

10. Violence Against Women

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 189

11. The Reproductive System

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 211

12. Conception and Fetal Development

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 241

13. Special Reproductive Concerns: Infertility and Genetics

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 269

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14. Preparation for Parenthood

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 305

15. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 323

16. Antepartum Nursing Assessment

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 345

17. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 373

18. Adolescent Pregnancy

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 409

19. Maternal Nutrition

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 427

20. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 451

21. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 487

22. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 535

23. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 569

24. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 595

25. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 637

26. Pain Management During Labor

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 679

27. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications

Michele Davidson/Marcia L. London/Patricia Ladewig 709

28. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications

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29. Birth-Related Procedures

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30. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth

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31. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn

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32. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care

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