Maternity Nursing

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.