This compact and portable reference assists nurses in planning and implementing nursing care for pediatric clients in the home setting. Organized by body system, it includes care plans for 36 pediatric disorders most commonly treated at home. Each care plan lists nursing diagnoses, short-term and long-term expected outcomes, nursing interventions, and client and family/caregiver interventions. Since the client and/or family is an active participant in care, client teaching is emphasized throughout.

Canadian Maternity and Pediatric Nursing prepares your students for safe and effective maternity and pediatric nursing practice. The content provides the student with essential information to care for women and their families, to assist them to make the right choices safely, intelligently, and with confidence.

The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.

HANDBOOK OF PEDIATRIC AND POSTPARTUM HOME CARE ROCEDURES provides a complete, up-to-date compilation of the most common pediatric and postpartum procedures undertaken in the home care setting. Condensed from Manual of Pediatric and Postpartum Home Care Procedures, the handbook includes sections on infection control, assessment procedures, maternal-newborn procedures, medical-surgical procedures, and IV therapy procedures. Each procedure lists the purpose, general information, the equipment required, the steps of the procedure, special nursing considerations including pertinent nursing precautions or useful educational tips, and documentation guidelines. Illustrations clarify text and show how procedures are performed. * Provides detailed descriptions of each procedure in a straightforward style, making it clear and easy for the nurse to understand how to carry out pediatric procedures in the home setting * Uses a stop sign logo in the equipment section of most procedures to alert the home care nurse to standard/universal precautions which must be followed. * Part I provides detailed guidelines for infection control in the home that make the procedures easy to implement. * Part II, Medical-Surgical Procedures, includes information on precise assessment and technical care, including specific chapters on assessment, IV therapy, medications, and therapeutic care. * Part III, Postpartum Procedures, includes procedures on apnea monitoring, bottle feeding, breast care, breast feeding, circumcision care, home phototherapy, and perineal care to assist the home care nurse with these unique procedures. * Includes illustrations that show the proper way to perform procedures. * Provides a comprehensive reference list and bibliography as a further resource for the reader who needs additional information. * Presents procedures that have been edited and reviewed by experienced pediatric home care nurses to make this a quality resource for users.

Ideal for accelerated maternity and pediatrics courses, Maternal-Child Nursing, 4th Edition is filled with user-friendly features to help you quickly master essential concepts and skills. It offers completely updated content that's easy to read and understand. Plus, active learning tools give you the chance to practice applying your knowledge and make learning fun! Critical Thinking Exercises allow you to apply your knowledge to realistic clinical situations. Nursing care plans assist you with applying the nursing process to plan individualized care for the most common maternity and pediatric conditions. Critical to Remember boxes summarize and highlight essential, need-to-know information. Communication Cues provide practical tips for effective verbal and nonverbal communication with patients and families. Clinical Reference sections in pediatric chapters present information relevant to each body system, including anatomy and physiology, differences in the pediatric patient, and related laboratory and diagnostic tests. Integrated electronic features match icons in the text, so you can use print and electronic resources more effectively together. Using Research to Improve Practice boxes help you determine proper care to reinforce best practice. Spanish translations are included for phrases commonly encountered with maternity and pediatric patients. Improved design makes the text easier to read, and up-to-date photos ensure accuracy.

Pediatric Home Care is a practice-based text perfect for either students or for supporting pediatric nurses practicing in a home-care setting. The text includes a variety of nursing information required for this type of care across a large spectrum of physiologic categories and acuity levels. The Third Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect the most current practice and technology and includes a new focus on evidence based practice.