Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care

Accurate, readable, and up-to-date, Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing presents pregnancy and childbirth as normal life processes with family members as co-participants in care. This text thoroughly illuminates all aspects of maternal-newborn nursing and many opportunities for nurses to make a difference in a changing healthcare environment. After introducing key concepts, it progresses through the steps of the nursing process, clearly delineating nurses' roles throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, the newborn period, and postpartum care. For each, it presents basic theory followed by chapters on assessment and care for essentially healthy women or infants, and then by complications and treatment. Recurring themes include evidence-based practice, critical thinking, clinical decision-making, community-based care, patient and family teaching, safety, cultural competence, complementary/alternative therapies, and health promotion. This edition's significant updates include revisions reflecting the latest recommendations of AACN Baccalaureate Essentials, QSEN, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and Healthy People 2020. KEY TOPICS: Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Care; Family, Culture, and Complementary Health Approaches; Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology; Conception and Fetal Development; Health Promotion for Women; Common Gynecologic Problems; Families with Special Reproductive Concerns; Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy; Antepartum Nursing Assessment; The Expectant Family: Needs and Care; Maternal Nutrition; Pregnancy in Selected Populations; Assessment of Fetal Well-Being; Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems; Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset; Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth; Intrapartum Nursing Assessment; The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care; Pharmacologic Pain Management; Childbirth at Risk: Pre-Labor and Intrapartum Complications; Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications; Birth-Related Procedures; The Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth; Nursing Assessment of the Newborn; Normal Newborn: Needs, Care, and Feeding; The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth; The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors; Postpartum Adaptation and Nursing Assessment; The Postpartum Family: Early Care Needs and Home Care; The Postpartum Family at Risk MARKET: This title is intended for 2- and 4-year college-level nursing courses that cover pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.