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Nursing Maternal and Child Health
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Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes For Mothers, Children, and Families

By Susan L. Ward, PhD, RN, Nebraska Methodist College, Omaha, NE.
Shelton M. Hisley, Ph.D., RNC, WHNP-BC, Assistant Professor (Retired), School of Nursing, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC..

ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1486-4
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1486-1

1,184 pp. 400 ill. full-color. Hard cover.  ©2009  Available now. $84.95

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Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM Instructors Guide • Lesson Plans • Tips for teaching combined courses • PowerPoint Presentation • Online-ready Electronic Test Bank • Case Studies with questions as well as answers to Student Study Guide Case Studies • Concept maps from text.

 

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BONUS! Electronic Student Study Guide on CD-ROM and Online at DavisPlus Student Test Bank • Interactive Exercises • Family Teaching Guides in English and Spanish • Expanded Care Plans • Care Plan Map template • Concept Maps from text • Additional Case Studies.
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Pediatric Calculations Module • Podcasts • Interactive Clincal Scenarios

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2009

 

 





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.

Key Features
  • Uses four major themes to organize the content:
  • Holistic Care
  • Holistic Quote/Story
  • Nursing Insight boxes
  • Collaboration in Caring
  • Ethnocultural Considerations
  • What to Say
  • Nursing Care Plans
  • Complementary and Alternative Care Modalities
  • Across Care Settings
  • Family Teaching Guidelines
  • Critical Thinking
  • Case Studies
  • Clinical Alerts
  • Critical Nursing Actions
  • NCLEX-style review questions
  • Concept Maps
  • Learning Targets
  • Key Words
  • Validating Practice
  • Optimizing Outcomes
  • Moving Toward Evidence-Based Practice boxes
  • Where Research and Practice Meet
  • Be Sure To...
  • Now Can You?
  • Summary Points
  • Tools for Care
  • A & P Review
  • Labs boxes
  • Step-by-Step Procedure boxes
  • Medication boxes
  • Assessment Tools
  • Diagnostic Tools

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Table of Contents
 
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

 
Unit VI ­ Caring for the Child and Family
Chapter 20 ­ Caring for the Developing Child
Chapter 21 ­ Caring for the Child in the Hospital and in the Community
Chapter 22 ­ Caring for the Family Across Care Settings
Unit VII ­ Ongoing Care of the Child in the Hospital and in the Community
Chapter 23 ­ Caring for the Child with a Psychological or Cognitive Condition
Chapter 24 ­ Caring for the Child with a Respiratory Condition
Chapter 25 ­ Caring for the Child with a Gastrointestinal Condition
Chapter 26 ­ Caring for the Child with an Immunologic or Infectious Condition
Chapter 27 ­ Caring for the Child with a Cardiovascular Condition
Chapter 28 ­ Caring for the Child with an Endocrinologic or Metabolic Condition
Chapter 29 ­ Caring for the Child with a Neurological or Sensory Condition
Chapter 30 ­ Caring for the Child with a Musculoskeletal Condition
Chapter 31 ­ Caring for the Child with an Integumentary Condition
Chapter 32 ­ Caring for the Child with a Renal, Urinary Tract, or Reproductive Condition
Chapter 33 ­ Caring for the Child with a Hemotological Condition
Chapter 34 ­ Caring for the Child with Cancer
Chapter 35 ­ Caring for the Child with a Chronic Condition or the Dying Child

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