Explains how to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate care for pregnancy, delivery, recovery, abnormal conditions, and newborn care. Features more than 65 of the most common and high-risk care plans for nursing care using the nursing process approach, this text includes NIC interventions, discussions on collaborative problems, key nursing activities, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic studies. --From publisher description.

UNIT 1 Planning Nursing Care 1. Nursing Process UNIT 2 Pregnancy/Antepartum Period 2. Genetic Counseling 3. Trimesters 4. High-risk Pregnancy 5. Cardiac Conditions in Pregnancy 6. Pregnancy-induced Hypertension 7. Diabetes Mellitus: Pre-pregnancy/Gestational 8. Prenatal Hemorrhage 9. Prenatal Infection 10. Premature Dilation of Cervix (Incompetent/Dysfunctional Cervix) 11. Spontaneous Termination of Pregnancy/Abortion 12. Elective Termination 13. Preterm Labor/Prevention of Delivery 14. Pregnant Adolescent 15. Prenatal Substance Abuse/Dependence UNIT 3 Intrapartum Period 16. Labor Stage I: Latent Phase 17. Labor Stage I: Active Phase 18. Labor Stage I: Transition Phase (Deceleration) 19. Labor Stage II: Expulsion of Fetus 20. Labor Stage III: Placental Expulsion 21. Dysfunctional Labor/Dystocia 22. Labor Induction/Augmentation 23. Cesarean Delivery 24. Precipitous Labor/Delivery 25. Intrapartal Hypertension 26. Intrapartal Diabetes Mellitus UNIT 4 Postpartum Period 27. Labor Stage IV: First Four Hours Following Delivery of the Placenta 28. Four Hours to Two Days Postpartum 29. Care Following Cesarean Delivery (4 Hours to 3 Days) 30. Client at 24 to 48 Hours Following Discharge 31. Client at One Week Following Discharge 32. Postpartal Hemorrhage 33. Puerperal Infection 34. Postpartal Diabetes Mellitus 35. Puerperal Thrombophlebitis 36. Parents of Newborns with Special Needs 37. Perinatal Loss UNIT 5 Newborn Period 38. Neonate: First Hour of Life 39. Neonate at Two Hours to Two Days of Age 40. Neonate at Two Days to One Week Following Discharge 41. Preterm Infant 42. Newborn Having Hyperbilirubinemia 43. Neonate of an HIV-Positive Mother 44. Deviations in Growth Patterns 45. Infant of an Addicted Mother 46. Neonatal Circumcision Bibliography Index

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

Discusses HOW things happen with concise descriptions of normal physiologic changes in pregnancy, disease processes, and procedures. Explains WHY things happen with special sections highlighting the physiology of pregnancy, the pathophysiology of diseases, and the evidence base for procedures and interventions. Provides prioritized, step-by-step lists of nursing interventions. Promotes patient education by explaining complex health-care information in language patients will understand. Presents verbatim nurse-patient interactions to use as models for your own approach to asking questions and talking with patients. Highlights potentially life-threatening issues and the appropriate interventions with "Alerts" throughout the text. Provides a wealth of valuable tools and resources, including... "Why is this Important," rationales for important topics. "Tips," non-clinical, but important information and suggestions. "Patient Education," tips for helping patients to understand their health status. "Offering Support," compassionate care advice. "Best Practice," advice from expert practitioners. Common mnemonics, tricks to help you remember what to do and when. Die-cut cervical dilation guide for quick reference.

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.

This edition contains 189 care plans covering the most common nursing diagnoses and clinical problems in medical-surgical nursing. It includes four new disorders care plans, SARS, lyme disease, west Nile virus, and obstructive sleep apnea.

This is an easy-to-use reference with nursing care plans for healthy clients during pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum, and the newborn periods. Additional diagnoses and plans are included for common perinatal and neonatal complications. The user can easily design a client-specific plan of care with interventions that are based on the latest research and current practice.