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Nurses working with childbearing families face a variety new challenges, including shortened lengths of hospital stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health-care systems. This book is not only important reading for maternity nurses, but also can be used as an invaluable reference tool.

 

The Eighth Edition of this popular book not only continues to emphasize the central role played by maternity nurses working with today's childbearing families, but also includes a global perspective, covering culture as a factor in relating to the woman's childbirth experience. It also includes a comprehensive, accessible segment on women's health issues.

 

For nurses in the fields of women's health, maternity, and newborn care

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Maternity & Women's Health Care, 9th Edition takes a collaborative care approach to maternal, newborn, and women's health nursing that emphasizes the nurse's role on the care team. Easy to read and logically organized, it follows the nursing process and offers evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. Key topics include evidence-based practice, family, culture, community, and health promotion. Practical application exercises and comprehensive care plans help strengthen your maternity nursing skills.

• Practical application approach follows the nursing process and emphasizes collaborative care and the nurse's role in health promotion and the family.
• Comprehensive nursing care plans provide examples of both normal and abnormal conditions.
• Nurse Alert boxes highlight essential nursing care information.
• Focuses on the importance of including the family in the continuum of care.
• Explores cultural considerations and the importance of assessing for and understanding cultural variations when providing care.
• Teaching for Self-Care boxes provide follow-up care instructions for patients transitioning from hospital to home.
• Medication Guides offer information about common drugs used during the childbearing process.

• Evidence-Based Practice boxes explore research findings and their effect on clinical practice.
• Critical Thinking Exercises help you strengthen problem-solving skills by applying key concepts to realistic clinical situations.
• Community Activity Exercises introduce you to nursing care in a variety of settings.

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Designed for shorter pediatric and maternity nursing courses, this useful textbook provides students with the "right amount" of maternity and pediatric content in an up-to-date, easy-to-understand manner. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book includes 28 chapters covering maternity nursing content and the second part contains 27 chapters covering pediatric nursing content. Numerous illustrations, photos, and tables help illustrate and clarify the information for the student. Many special boxes, pedagogical features, and an inviting full-color design also help make key information easy to find and review. * Nurse Alerts identify critical information that students should not overlook when treating patients. * Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow approach. * Emergency boxes highlight emergency procedures in a step-by-step format to help students understand how to perform them. * Home Care boxes detail important information to help prepare students to deliver care to patients and families in the home setting. * Atraumatic Care boxes (in the pediatrics section) teach students to provide competent care without creating undue physical or psychological stress to the patient. * Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, provide resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings. * Critical Thinking Exercises provide students with case scenarios that depict real life situations to help them choose the best interventions and make good clinical judgments. * Cultural Awareness boxes provid.
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Co-written by a maternity and pediatrics nursing author team throughly integrates materna-newborn nursing adn pediatric nursing in one since book.  Equal focus is placed on community-based and hospital-based care to address the increasing balance between both nursing care settings.

 

This edition has increased coverage of pain assessment and management, nutrition and health promotion, patient education and communication, research based practice, and assessment as the core of the nursing process.    A CD-ROM includes NCLEX-RN practice questions and Critical Thinking in Action videos.

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Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this leading text provides a solid foundation in obstetrics and pediatric nursing. Its concise, logical organization by developmental stages, discussion of disorders by body system from simple-to-complex and health-to-illness, and a focus on health promotion and on the family make it a complete guide to caring for maternity and pediatric patients.

• Focuses on family-centered care, health promotion and illness prevention, women's health issues, and growth and development of the child and parent.
• Covers a wide range of maternal and pediatric care with 35 skills and provides expected outcomes, interventions, and rationales for nursing care 30 nursing care plans.
• Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each Nursing Care Plan challenge students to evaluate and apply the plan of care to specific clinical situations.
• Nursing Tips throughout the text provide pertinent information applicable in the clinical setting.
• Pictorial story of a vaginal birth includes photos through delivery.
• Cultural considerations as they relate to pregnancy and delivery, maternal/infant, and pediatric care in detailed tables help nurses develop cultural sensitivity when caring for diverse patient populations.
• Cultural Assessment Data Collection Tool checklist assists the nurse in developing an individualized plan of care.

• Health Promotion Considerations boxes focus on prenatal wellness, health during pregnancy, postnatal health, and more.
• Companion CD-ROM, bound with the book, includes videos of both a normal delivery and a cesarian birth, 70 neonatal and pediatric assessment video clips, 3-D animations, audio glossary, and Patient Teaching Plans in Spanish and English.
• Discusses CPR specifically for the pregnant patient.
• MyPyramid illustrates the 2005 revised nutrition guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Provides discussions of changes in clinical care recommendations, including use of Ipecac® for poisoning, vaginal birth after caesarian, and pain relief in newborns.
• Includes the latest content on infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy, sexual abuse, assault, rape in the pediatric population, and the adolescent as a parent.
• Includes an appendix of JCAHO Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols.

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Continually praised for its reader-friendly coverage of complex topics, this trusted resource provides fundamental, step-by-step guidance for assessing and caring for new mothers, newborns, and families. It carefully integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, client teaching, communication, and critical thinking all into the overall continuum of nursing care. The updated 4th edition integrates evidence-based practice where appropriate and includes the latest information on women's health and fetal monitoring. * Multicultural considerations and changing family structures integrated throughout provide a thorough understanding of the needs, values, customs, and beliefs of clients from different backgrounds. * Communication Cues provide hints and techniques for interpreting client and family statements and behaviors. * Therapeutic Communication boxes use actual client-nurse dialogues to illustrate interactions. * Procedure Guides outline common procedures with rationales for each step. * Critical thinking questions, complete with answers and rationales, present real life clinical situations and challenge students to determine what to do and why. * Critical-to-Remember boxes highlight vital concerns such as danger signs in pregnancy, behaviors associated with substance abuse, and facts about HIV. * Drug Guides outline indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications..
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This essential student resource is designed to help the student master the information presented in Maternal/Child Nursing Care, 3rd Edition. Specially designed to parallel material in the book, this helpful study guide is just what you need for in-depth study and review of the most important facts and information on maternity and pediatric nursing.

• Matching or fill-in-the-blank questions give students the opportunity to test their ability to define all key terms highlighted in the corresponding textbook chapter.
• A variety of questions (matching, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short answer, and multiple choice) are used to provide students with ample opportunity to assess their knowledge and comprehension of the information covered in the text.
• Students are required to apply concepts (Thinking Critically) found in the chapter to solve problems, make decisions concerning care management, and provide responses to patient's questions and concerns.
• Answers to all questions are provided at the end of this Study Guide.

The content reflects what's in the 3rd edition of the text book..
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For course review on a specific topic, e.g., maternity nursing, review for NCLEX-RN, and review for specialty training. This resource provides a core content review of the subject in outline format. Each chapter opens with a brief outline, objectives, key terms with definitions, media box with summary of the CD, as well as a pre-test. The pre-test and post-test guide the student through a self-paced review. Other features unique to this resource help further enhance the review process..
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This is an essential book for the shorter courses in maternity nursing, e.g., 4-8 weeks long or as a refresher for professionals Features in this book include: Women's Health and Reproductive Issues; Conception and Development; Pregnancy--Normal and High Risk; Labor--Normal and High Risk; Birth--Normal and High Risk; Postpartum Care--Normal and High Risk; Newborn Care--Normal and High Risk. Nursing students and professionals.

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