Master the essentials of maternity and pediatric nursing with this comprehensive, all-in-one text! Maternal Child Nursing Care, 7th Edition covers the issues and concerns of women during their childbearing years and children during their developing years. It uses a family-centered, problem-solving approach to patient care, with guidelines supported by evidence-based practice. New to this edition is an emphasis on clinical judgment skills and a new chapter on children with integumentary dysfunction. Written by a team of experts led by Shannon E. Perry and Marilyn J. Hockenberry, this book provides the accurate information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the Next Generation NCLEX-RN® examination. - Focus on the family throughout the text emphasizes the influence of the entire family in health and illness. - Expert authors of the market-leading maternity and pediatric nursing textbooks combine to ensure delivery of the most accurate, up-to-date content. - Information on victims of sexual abuse as parents and human trafficking helps prepare students to handle these delicate issues. - Nursing Alerts highlight critical information that could lead to deteriorating or emergency situations. - Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow format. - Evidence-Based Practice boxes include findings from recent clinical studies. - Emergency Treatment boxes describe the signs and symptoms of emergency situations and provide step-by-step interventions. - Atraumatic Care boxes teach students how to manage pain and provide competent care to pediatric patients with the least amount of physical or psychological stress. - Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, provide resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings. - Patient Teaching boxes highlight important information nurses need to communicate to patients and families. - Cultural Considerations boxes describe beliefs and practices relating to pregnancy, labor and birth, parenting, and women's health. - Family-Centered Care boxes draw attention to the needs or concerns of families that students should consider to provide family-centered care.

A better way to learn maternal and newborn nursing! This unique presentation provides tightly focused maternal-newborn coverage in a highly structured text

CONTEMPORARY MATERNITY NURSING provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of maternity nursing relevant to the practical/vocational nurse. It discusses current issues and trends, such as cultural considerations, substance abuse, age considerations, birth setting options, and genetic counseling. This contemporary focus addresses the nurse's role as it relates to today's maternity practice-shorter hospital stays, prenatal care provided in community settings, and postpartum home care.

User-friendly and well-illustrated, this maternity text focuses on the family. From prenatal care through labor and delivery, to nursing care of the postpartum family and newborn, you'll find everything your students need. Concisely written and designed in an easy-to-read style, this text covers maternity care in detail, and covers current issues like AIDS, substance abuse and adolescent pregnancy. Discussions on the role of the nurse, cultural insights and adolescent considerations are presented from a contemporary perspective. This outstanding maternity text includes: student objectives, key terms, chapter outlines, key points, NCLEX-style questions - with answers & rationale, assessment checklists, nursing diagnoses checklists, nursing interventions checklists, nursing care plans, Review & Preview, and family teaching checklists.

This new eighth edition of the classic maternity nursing textbook for nursing students is fully revised, updated and revamped for nursing today, reflecting the rapidly changing world of health care. A timely new chapter on complementary and alternative therapies discusses the relationships among the physiology of pregnancy, medications and homeopathy Includes Chapter Openers with concise Chapter Outlines that guide students through the content and Learning Objectives to help them focus their studying. Includes striking new photographs that bring to life the many current themes and new and improved products and equipment in maternity nursing Includes Clinical Pathways where appropriate to reflect collaborative care. Expands content in the Womens Health Issues Includes striking new photographs that bring to life the many current themes and new and improved products and equipment in maternity nursing. Contains anew chapter on Complementary and Alternative Therapies that explores the wide range of nontraditional therapies that offer pain relief during labor and childbirth, a decrease in nausea during pregnancy, and coping strategies for stress. Provides a free built-in Selfworkbook at the back of the book that includes Clinical Situations, Internet Activities, and multiplequestions with answers in the Instructors Manual. Includes Clinical Pathways where appropriate to reflect collaborative care. Expands content in the Womens Health Issues chapter with more information on major gynecological concerns, sexually transmitted diseases, and violence/rape trauma. Incorporates Fast Focus boxes throughout the text, providing contentpieces that highlight important information. Contains Critical Thinking Activities which encourage the student to assimilate and synthesize information, then to apply it using critical thinking skills. Includes many new tables as well as reorganized and streamlined content to make accessing important information easier, more efficient, and user friendly. Adds a second color to highlight and accentuate many illustrations and important information. Contains updated bibliographies, including the new Healthy People 2010 objectives.

Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care, Fifth Edition Student Workbook The underlying philosophy of Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care continue to focus on the belief that pregnancy and childbirth are normal life processes and that family members are co-participants in care. In the new Fifth Edition, the authors remain committed to providing a text that is accurate and readable, a text that helps students develop the skills and abilities they need now and in the future in an ever-changing health care environment. This Student Workbook contains: * A concise review of essential material found in the main text. * Exercises and strategies to aid in a focused review. * Multiple-choice NCLEX study review questions.