Maternal-Newborn Nursing

This new comprehensive text covers the care of women and their families during pregnancy, labor and birth, and the postpartum period, as well as fetal development, the transition of the newborn to extrauterine life, assessment of the newborn, and care during the neonatal period. Distinguishing itself from other texts in the field, it presents nursing and professional theories, and emphasizes research-based practice. It also promotes the philosophy that childbearing is a family affair and therefore is family centered. What's more, it addresses childbirth as a normal physiologic process that nursing can support with non-technologic interventions. Features: * Over 450 original full-colour drawings and photographs and 30 detailed, illustrated procedures for maternity and newborn care facilitate the learning process. * Teaching guidelines list important teaching content and outline "tips for improving teaching effectiveness" in one convenient table. * "Trends in Research" articles summarize the latest in maternity nursing research. * Gives the needed preparation for home and community clinical experiences.
* "Improving Your Practice" boxes promote critical thinking and cultural sensitivity by discussing a nurse's values, beliefs, attitudes and delivery of care. * Discusses social and political issues' impact on maternal-newborn nursing, which encourages better decision making and a higher level of practice. * Comprehensive care planning guides cover major situations during the childbearing cycle and are presented step by step, based on nursing diagnoses, with rationales for each nursing intervention. * Standardized assessment guides that are closely linked to care plans make the transition to clinical practice easier for nursing students.