Maternal-Child Nursing Care + Women's Health Companion: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, & Families

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2015-06-03
Publisher(s): F.A. Davis Company
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Summary

‘Think like a nurse’ with the 2nd Edition of this AJN Book-of-the-Year Award winner. It offers the perfect balance of maternal and child nursing care with the right depth and breadth of coverage for students in today’s maternity/pediatric courses. And, it’s accompanied byThe Women’s Health Companion, a complete guide to the role of the nurse in promoting women’s health.

A unique emphasis on optimizing outcomes, evidence-based practice, and research supports the goal of caring for women, families and children, not only in traditional hospital settings, but also wherever they live, work, study, or play. Clear, concise, and easy to follow, the content is organized around four major themes, holistic care, critical thinking, validating practice, and tools for care that help students to learn and apply the material.

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What instructors are saying...

“Well written, eye-catching and well organized chapters”
- Sami Rahman, MEd, MSN, RN
Blinn College

"Clear, concise, uses tables and figures to support important concepts and content.”
- Darlene A. Ardary, PhD, RN, CPN, CSN
Lock Haven University

“It is thorough on content and it contains many student tools like charts, tables and concept maps.”
- Carmen Torres MSN, MHS, RN, CNE
Bergen Community College

“I like the different aspects that are included that get the students engaged in learning. It is a comprehensive text to use when teaching Maternal child nursing. It is simple enough for all students but engaging enough to keep even your most adept student challenged.”
- Teresa Carnevale, PhD, MSN, RN
Beaver College of Health Sciences

A complete continuum of the child from preconception through adolescents. All inclusive in a easy to read and understandable format.
- Stephanie Palmersheim MSN, RN
St. Luke’s College
Sioux City, Iowa

“Good flow with information and material from Care of Maternal Health Nursing to Care of Pediatric Nursing."
- Lisa Stoddart, MSN, RN, FNP-BC
Associate Nursing Professor Pediatrics
San Joaquin Delta College

 

Awarded third place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Maternal-Child Nursing/Childbirthing category

Table of Contents

Maternal-Child Care Nursing, 2nd Edition

I. Foundations in Maternal, Family, and Child Care
1. Traditional and Community Nursing Care for Women, Families, and Children
2. Contemporary Issues in Women’s, Families’, and Children’s Health Care
3. The Evolving Family
4. Caring for Women, Families, and Children Across the Life Span

II. The Process of Human Reproduction
5. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
6. Human Sexuality and Fertility
7. Conception and Development of the Embryo and Fetus

III. The Prenatal Journey
8. Physiological and Psychosocial Changes During Pregnancy
9. The Prenatal Assessment
10. Promoting a Health Pregnancy
11. Caring for the Woman Experiencing Complications During Pregnancy

IV. The Birth Experience
12. The Process of Labor and Birth
13. Promoting Patient Comfort During Labor and Birth
14. Caring for the Woman Experiencing Complications During Labor and Birth

V. Care of the New Family
15. Caring for the Postpartal Woman and Her Family
16. Caring for the Woman Experiencing Complications During Postpartal Period
17. Physiological Transition of the Newborn
18. Caring for the Normal Newborn
19. Caring for the Newborn at Risk

VI. Caring for the Child and Family
20. Caring for the Developing Child
21. Caring for the Child in the Hospital, the Community and Across Care Settings
22. Caring for the Child with a Psychosocial or Cognitive Condition

VII. Ongoing Care of the Child in the Hospital and in the Community
23. Caring for the Child with a Respiratory Condition
24. Caring for the Child with a Gastrointestinal Condition
25. Caring for the Child with an Immunologic or Infectious Condition
26. Caring for the Child with a Cardiovascular Condition
27. Caring for the Child with an Endocrinologic or Metabolic Condition
28. Caring for the Child with a Neurological or Sensory Condition
29. Caring for the Child with a Musculoskeletal Condition
30. Caring for the Child with an Integumentary Condition
31. Caring for the Child with a Genitourinary Condition
32. Caring for the Child with a Hematological Condition
33. Caring for the Child with Cancer
34. Caring for the Child with a Chronic Condition or the Dying Child
35. Caring for the Critically Ill Child


The Women’s Health Companion, 2nd Edition

1. Promoting Mental Health and Physical Safety through an Understanding of Intimate Partner Violence
2. Promoting Reproductive Health through an Understanding of Premenstrual Syndrome
3. Promoting Breast Health
4. Promoting Reproductive Health through an Understanding of Various Gynecological Disorders
5. Promoting Reproductive Health through an Understanding of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
6. Promoting Reproductive Health through an Understanding of Cervical and Cytology Screening, Human Papillomavirus, and Cervical Cancer
7. Promoting Menopausal Health

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