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AJN Book of the Year 2009

The ENHANCED, REVISED, REPRINT of Maternal-Child Care Nursing is the same great book that won an AJN Book-of-the-Year Award... made even better with the feedback we received from instructors across the country and Canada.

BONUS! The Women's Health Companion, packaged with every copy of the book, is a $29.00 value that's absolutely FREE when you purchase the ENHANCED, REVISED, REPRINT. It's a complete guide to the role of the nurse in promoting women's health. From class to clinical through NCLEX to practice, it presents all of the information nursing students need to know and shows them how to apply it in both traditional and community settings. There are even teaching and learning resources for this content online at DavisPlus.

The perfect balance of maternal and child nursing care in a new textbook conceived and written to be a combination textbook! An extensive review by nursing educators ensures that it offers just the right depth and breadth of coverage for students in today’s maternity/pediatric courses. Its 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.

Unit I ­ Foundations in Maternal, Family, and Child Care

Chapter 1 ­ Traditional and Community Nursing Care for Women, Families, and Children

Chapter 2 ­ Contemporary Issues in Women’s, Families’, and Children’s Health Care

Chapter 3 ­ The Evolving Family

Chapter 4 ­ Caring for Women, Families, and Children in Contemporary Society

Unit II ­ The Process of Human Reproduction

Chapter 5 ­ Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

Chapter 6 ­ Human Sexuality and Fertility

Chapter 7 ­ Conception and Development of the Embryo and Fetus

Unit III ­ The Prenatal Journey

Chapter 8 ­ Physiologic and Psychosocial Changes During Pregnancy

Chapter 9 ­ The Prenatal Assessment

Chapter 10 ­ Promoting a Healthy Pregnancy

Chapter 11 ­ Caring for the Woman Experiencing Complications During Pregnancy

Chapter 12 ­ The Process of Labor and Birth

Unit IV ­ The Birth Experience

Chapter 13 ­ Promoting Patient Comfort During Labor and Birth

Chapter 14 ­ Caring for the Woman Experiencing Complications During Labor and Birth

Unit V ­ Care for the New Family

Chapter 15 ­ Caring for the Postpartal Woman and Her Family

Chapter 16 ­ Caring for the Woman Experiencing Complications During Postpartal Period

Chapter 17 ­ Physiological Transitions of the Newborn

Chapter 18 ­ Caring for the Normal Newborn

Chapter 19 ­ Caring for the Newborn at Risk