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Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing

  • 8th Edition - August 11, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sharon Smith Murray, Emily Slone McKinney, Karen Holub, Renee Jones, Kristin L. Scheffer
  • Language: English

Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 8th Edition integrates essential maternity informati… Read more

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Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 8th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show you how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. With easy-to-understand language, this updated text uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making. Questions for the Next Generation NCLEX© in the text help you prepare for the exam.

Key features

  • Contributing content from known experts in the field of maternal and women’s health
  • Unfolding case studies help you apply what you’ve learned to practice
  • Safety checks integrated into the content help you develop competencies related to safe nursing practice
  • Chapter summaries appear at the end of each chapter and help you review core content in each chapter while on the go
  • Patient teaching boxes provide teaching guidelines, including communication guides, directed at patients and families
  • Critical to Remember boxes highlight and summarize need-to-know information
  • Application of Nursing Process sections help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations
  • Updated! Drug guides list important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications
  • Procedure boxes provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills with rationales for each step
  • UNIQUE! Therapeutic Communications boxes present realistic nurse-patient dialogues, identifying communication techniques and showing ways to respond when encountering communication blocks
  • Knowledge Check helps you assess your mastery of key content
  • Glossary provides definitions of all key terms

Readership

Undergraduate nursing students Nursing students in 2-year and 4-year programs

Table of contents

Part 1: Foundations for Nursing Care of Childbearing Families

1. Clinical Judgment and the Nursing Process

2. Social, Cultural, and Ethical Issues

3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing

Part 2: The Family Before Birth

5. Conception and Prenatal Development

6. Adaptations to Pregnancy

7. Antepartum Assessment, Care, and Education

8. Nutrition for Childbearing

9. Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Assessment During the Antepartum Period

10. Complications of Pregnancy

11. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs

Part 3: The Family During Birth

12. Processes of Birth

13. Pain Management During Childbirth

14. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance

15. Nursing Care During Labor and Birth

16. Intrapartum Complications

Part 4: The Family Following Birth

17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care

18. Postpartum Complications

19. Critical Care Obstetrics

20. Newborn: Processes of Adaptation

21. Assessment of the Newborn

22. Care of the Newborn

23. Infant Feeding

24. High Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development

25. High Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions

Part 5: Women’s Health Care

26. Family Planning

27. Infertility

28. Women’s Health

Appendix A: Answers to Knowledge Check
Appendix B: Answers to Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination-Style Questions

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 23, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

SM

Sharon Smith Murray

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita, Health Professions, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California, USA

EM

Emily Slone McKinney

Affiliations and expertise
Baylor Healthcare System, Dallas, Texas, USA

KH

Karen Holub

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Baylor University, Louise Herrington School of Nursing, Dallas, Texas, USA

RJ

Renee Jones

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Clinical Professor, Baylor University, Louise Herrington School of Nursing, Dallas, Texas, USA

KS

Kristin L. Scheffer

Affiliations and expertise
Nursing Professional Development Generalist, Labor & Delivery | High-Risk Antepartum, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA