Maternity Nursing

A streamlined approach covers the fundamentals of maternity nursing! Maternity Nursing, 8th Edition focuses on the care of women during the childbearing years. Designed to meet the needs of today’s students, the book offers a clear, readable style and a concise, focused presentation. It integrates an understanding of family, culture, and health promotion into the continuum of care, and coverage of community-based care emphasizes nursing care in many different settings. Not only does Maternity Nursing focus on childbearing issues and concerns, including care of the newborn, but it also addresses wellness promotion and the management of common women’s health problems. The Evolve companion website includes useful study tools, including medical animations, video clips, a care plan builder, and NCLEX^® exam-style review questions.

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• A companion Evolve website includes student resources such as NCLEX^® exam-style review questions, audio chapter summaries, a care plan builder, nursing skills, interactive case studies, video clips and animations, anatomy reviews, and an audio glossary with Spanish pronunciations.
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• Unique! Nursing Alerts highlight critical information in providing care.
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• Unique! Emergency boxes provide step-by-step procedures for pediatric and maternity emergencies.
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• Unique! Cultural Considerations boxes discuss customs and beliefs of different cultures that may affect care for patients and families.
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• Unique! Community Activity boxes provide maternal and newborn exercises to enhance care in local community settings.
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• Unique! Nursing Process boxes identify information on major diseases and conditions.
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• Patient Instructions for Self-Management boxes highlight the information nurses need to communicate to patients and families.
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• Critical Thinking exercises are based on case studies of real-life situations.
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• Coverage of nursing care management uses a framework of the five steps of the nursing process as well as a focus on collaborative care.
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• Nursing care plans include specific guidelines and rationales for interventions.

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• 21^st Century Maternity Nursing: Culturally Competent, Family and Community Focused chapter integrates content on the family and home care.
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• A focus on the family recognizes the nurse’s need to integrate the family in the care of the mother and newborn, and the importance of the role of the mother to the well-being of the family.
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• Updated content includes information on the late preterm infant and associated concerns such as feeding; guidelines on prioritization and delegation; and centering pregnancy, a new model of health care that brings women together in care groups.
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• Updated coverage of evidence-based practice includes current research in newly expanded, researched, and reformatted boxes.
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• Streamlined content focuses your attention on the most essential, need-to-know information.
  

The book contains predominantly color illustrations, with some black-and-white illustrations.

How do we care for a woman of childbearing age in today's society? The answers are found in this book, one of the most comprehensive reproductive health books on the market today. It is a "must-have" for maternity nursing students, no matter the program they're enrolled in. This book not only addresses the fundamentals of maternity nursing, but integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, and health promotion into the continuum of care.

Community-based care is emphasized in this new edition, along with integrating cultural and preventive considerations into nursing plans of care. Students will find useful the boxes highlighting important information on subjects such as complications, research, procedures, teaching guidelines, and home care. Content is revised to apply to all types of maternity-nursing programs.

Nancy E. Moss

This fifth edition textbook features maternal/newborn nursing with numerous charts, illustrations, and special multi-colored text boxes for quick access of information, learning, and visual appeal. Other worthy features include a computer disk study guide and the availability of Mosby's Electronic Resource Links and Information Network. The purpose is to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to become competent, think critically, and attain sensitivity as caring maternity nurses. It is written for nursing students in their beginning-level maternal/child theory and clinical courses. The well known editors have previously published in the area of obstetrical/newborn nursing with numerous other publications to their credit. Worthy features of this book include detailed colored illustrations and boxed features of concise pertinent information for memory retention. Case management is used as the organizing framework for the nursing care chapters. The addition of new chapters such as adaptation to parenthood, including family dynamics and community and home care, brings this latest edition to the current state-of-the-art. The table of contents, index, and glossary are user friendly and the references are current. This text concisely presents maternity nursing concepts and research for nursing students. Inclusion of colored illustrations, boxed critical content, and critical thinking exercises at the end of each chapter facilitates the use of the book while guiding nursing students in their initial maternal/child course. It retains the comprehensiveness of previous editions. This book is very appropriate for the presentation of current maternity nursing knowledge tonursing students in their beginning level experience.

Lowdermilk, Deitra Leonard, RNC, PhD, FAAN (Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Perry, Shannon E., RN, PhD, FAAN (San Francisco State Univ); Bobak, Irene M., RN, PhD, FAAN (San Francisco State Univ)