Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk & Kitty Cashion & Kathryn Rhodes Alden & Ellen Olshansky & Shannon E. Perry
Date of Publication: 09/2023
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Maternal/Child**This comprehensive maternity book is now even better! Maternity and Women's Health Care, 13th Edition provides evidence-based covera ...view more
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Maternal/Child**
This comprehensive maternity book is now even better! Maternity and Women's Health Care, 13th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. In addition to emphasizing childbearing concerns like newborn care, it also addresses wellness promotion and management of women's health problems. In describing the continuum of care, it integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, and community-based care. New guidelines are incorporated with updated content throughout, focusing on prioritization of care and interprofessional care.
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Maternal/Child**
This comprehensive maternity book is now even better! Maternity and Women's Health Care, 13th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. In addition to emphasizing childbearing concerns like newborn care, it also addresses wellness promotion and management of women's health problems. In describing the continuum of care, it integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, and community-based care. New guidelines are incorporated with updated content throughout, focusing on prioritization of care and interprofessional care.
New to this edition
NEW! Case studies for the Next Generation NCLEX®
.
NEW! Content on COVID-19 includes current recommendations from professional organizations related to vaccines and the care of pregnant women and newborns.
UPDATED! Increased coverage of the needs of nontraditional families.
UPDATED! Coverage of legislative changes that affect health care delivery in the United States.
UPDATED! Current recommendations and practice changes from professional organizations, such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the Association for Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
UPDATED! Enhanced content on client- and family-centered care focuses on diversity and cultural assessment.
UPDATED! Added emphasis on racial disparities in relation to women’s health and childbearing.
UPDATED! Cutting-edge content on treatments for breast cancer.
Key Features
Expert authors of the market-leading maternity nursing textbook deliver the most accurate, up-to-date content.
Signs of Potential Complications highlight vital concerns, alerting you to signs and symptoms of complications and the immediate interventions to provide.
Cultural Considerations stress the importance of considering the beliefs and health practices of clients and their families from various cultures when providing care.
Medication Guides provide key information about commonly used medications with specific nursing implications.
Medication Alerts highlighted and integrated within the content alert readers to critical drug information that must be considered to provide safe client care.
Safety Alerts highlighted and integrated within the content draw attention to developing competencies related to safe nursing practice.
Nursing Care Plans identify priority client problems and concerns, along with appropriate interventions and rationales.
Community Activity boxes focus on maternal and newborn activities that can be pursued in local community settings and online and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings, including assisting clients in locating resources.
Emergency boxes provide information about various emergency situations and offer a quick reference in critical situations.
Teaching for Self-Management boxes highlight important information that nurses need to communicate to clients and families for follow-up care.
Author Information
By Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC, PhD, FAAN, Clinical Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Kitty Cashion, RN, BC, MSN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA; Kathryn Rhodes Alden, EdD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Ellen Olshansky, PhD, RN, WHNP-E, FAAN, Professor Emerita, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and Founding Director, Program in Nursing Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California and Shannon E. Perry, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Part 1: Introduction to Maternity and Women’s Health Care Chapter 1: 21st-Century Maternity and Women’s Health Nursing Chapter 2: Community Care: The Family and Culture Chapter 3: Nursing and Genomics Chapter 4: Women’s Health Chapter 5: Violence and Reproductive System Concerns
Part 2: Reproductive System Concerns Chapter 6: Reproductive System Concerns Chapter 7: Contraception and Abortion Chapter 8: Infertility Chapter 9: Problems of the Breast Chapter 10: Structural Disorders and Neoplasms of the Reproductive System
Part 3: Pregnancy Chapter 11: Pregnancy Chapter 12: Conception and Fetal Development Chapter 13: Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy Chapter 14: Nursing Care of the Family During Pregnancy Chapter 15: Maternal Nutrition
Part 4: Labor and Birth Chapter 16: Labor and Birth Chapter 17: Labor and Birth Processes Chapter 18: Maximizing Comfort for the Laboring Person Chapter 19: Fetal Assessment During Labor Chapter 20: Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and Birth
Part 5: Postpartum and the Newborn Chapter 21: Postpartum Chapter 22: Postpartum Anatomical and Physiologic Changes Chapter 23: Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum Period Chapter 24: Transition to Parenthood Chapter 25: The Newborn Chapter 26: Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn Chapter 27: Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family Chapter 28: Newborn Nutrition and Feeding Chapter 29: Complications of Pregnancy Chapter 30: Assessment of High-Risk Pregnancy Chapter 31: Hypertensive Disorders Chapter 32: Hemorrhagic Disorders Chapter 33: Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders Chapter 34: Medical-Surgical Disorders Chapter 35: Acquired Problems of the Newborn Chapter 36: Hemolytic Disorders and Congenital Anomalies Chapter 37: Perinatal Loss, Bereavement, and Grief
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