Revised and updated, this new 6th edition is the all-in-one source for practical, reliable information on nursing care during the childbearing years. Designed to meet the needs of today's students, it addresses the fundamentals of maternity nursing with a clear, more readable writing style and a concise, more focused content presentation. Integrating the importance of understanding family, culture, and health promotion into the continuum of care, it also includes a strategic integration of community-based care to emphasize that care can take place wherever the woman may be. - Care management emphasized throughout.
- Women's health content is up front to provide a thorough understanding of health promotion and prevention, common health concerns and care of women throughout childbearing years.
- Home Care content is integrated in all normal and high risk nursing care chapters.
- Family content is first introduced in Chapter 2 and then incorporated in the pregnancy, labor & birth, postpartum, and newborn chapters to emphasize the importance of including the family in the continuum of care.
- Culture content introduced in Chapter 2 and then integrated throughout.
- Health promotion and prevention integrated to maintain a focus on wellness as an integral part of today's maternity nursing care.
- Patient Instructions for Self-Care boxes integrated throughout provides special instructions for follow-up care.
- Care of the childbearing adolescent integrated throughout providing important age related considerations.
- Nurse Alert boxes highlight
- English/Spanish Guidelines boxes provide the student with a handy reference for communicating with and teaching patients & families.
- Emergency Boxes alert the student to signs & symptoms of important situations.
- Free Companion CD with interactive case studies, matching and fill-in-the-blank questions, review questions, and a vocabulary review with sound pronunciations.
Complementary & Alternative Therapies are integrated throughout to provide useful information on alternatives to traditional care techniques.Medication Guides provide information about the most common drugs.A new chapter on Loss and Grief focuses attention on the sensitive issues that nurses face when caring for the family.Evidence-Based Practice is incorporated into the text with a summary of the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Database, a collection of research findings that confirms effective practices and identifies practices that have unknown, ineffective, or harmful effects.