Maternity nursing /

Maternity nursing / [edited by] Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC, PhD, FAAN, Clinical Professor Emerita, School of Nursing , University of North Carlina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Shannon E. Perry, RN, CNS, PhD, FAAN, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Fransico, California, Kitty Cashion, RN, BC, MSN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee ; associate editor, Kathryn Rhodes Alden, EdD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. - Eighth edition, revised reprint. - xxi, 874 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

21st century maternity nursing : culturally competent, family and community focused -- Assessment and health promotion -- Common concerns -- Contraception, abortion, and infertility -- Genetics, conception, and fetal development -- Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy -- Nursing care of the family during pregnancy -- Maternal and fetal nutrition -- Labor and birth processes -- Management of discomfort -- Fetal assessment during labor -- Nursing care of the family during labor and birth -- Maternal physiologic changes -- Nursing care of the family during the fourth trimester -- Transition to parenthood -- Physiologic and behavioral adaptations of the newborn -- Assessment and care of the newborn and family -- Newborn nutrition and feeding -- Assessment of high risk pregnancy -- Pregnancy at risk: preexisting conditions -- Pregnancy at risk: gestational conditions -- Labor and birth at risk -- Postpartum complications -- The newborn at risk.

School of Nursing

9780323241915 (hbk.)

2014451007


Maternity nursing.
Pediatric nursing.

RG 951 / .L693 2014

618/.04231