F.A. Davis Company

A better way to learn maternal and newborn nursing!

This unique multi-media package presents tightly focused coverage in a highly structured book of 500 pages plus 10 hours of recorded content. All of the field’s must-have information is delivered in an easy-to-grasp, visually clear and precise print design, while the digital audio files on the enclosed CD enable students to download the material to their MP3 players or listen at their computers.

BONUS Audio Book on CD-ROM with 10 hours of narrated content from the text to play on a computer or download to an MP3 player or iPod.

• Delivers the critical-to-know content in two ways—in print and as digital audio files.
• Lets students download the audio files to listen to their text anytime, anywhere.
• Features a biopsychosocial approach which encompasses physiology, psychological adaptation, and social and cultural influences on childbearing, and emphasizes nursing implications and care of patients and families.
• Meets the challenge of limited course time by efficiently organizing information in bulleted lists, flow charts, diagrams, tables, clinical pathways, and concept maps.
• Introduces two unfolding case studies in Unit 2, one low-risk, one high-risk that are further developed in subsequent chapters through Tying It All Together boxes, which summarize the key elements in each chapter.
• Offers a unique chapter on intrapartum and postpartum nursing care of families experiencing caesarean birth.
• Uses pedagogical tools to organize and highlight important concepts including….
  • Unit and chapter objectives.
  • Key terms.
  • Nursing diagnoses and nursing outcomes.
  • Critical component boxes.
  • Cultural considerations boxes.
  • Medications boxes.
  • Concept maps.
  • Evidence-based practice guidelines boxes in all chapters related to nursing care.
  • Clinical pathways.
  • Standards of care and position statements.
  • Care plans.
  • NCLEX questions.
  • Glossary.
• Includes a wealth of useful Appendices.

1. Maternity Nursing Overview
1. Trends and Issues
2. Ethics and Standards of Practice Issues
2. Antepartal Period
3. Genetics, Conception, Fetal Development, and Reproductive Technology
4. Physiological Aspects of Antepartum Care
5. Psycho-Social-Cultural Aspects of the Antepartum Period
6. Antepartal Tests
7. High-Risk Antepartum Nursing Care
3. Intrapartal Period
8. Intrapartum Assessment and Interventions
9. Fetal Heart Rate Assessment
10. High-Risk Labor and Birth
11. Intrapartum and Postpartum Care of the Cesarean Birth Families
4. Postpartal Period
12. Postpartum Physiological Assessments and Nursing Care
13. Transition to Parenthood
14. High-Risk Postpartum Nursing Care
5. Neonatal Period
15. Physiological and Behavioral Responses of the Neonate
16. Discharge Planning and Teaching
17. High-Risk Neonatal Nursing Care

1. WHONN Quick Care Guide for Neonatal Skin Care
2. AWHONN Quick Guide to Breastfeeding
3. Laboratory Values
4. Conversions, Temperature Equivalents, Pounds to Ounces
5. Cervical Dilation Chart