Maternity Nursing. an Introductory Text

DESCRIPTION

From prenatal through postpartum care, Gloria Leifer's Maternity Nursing: An Introductory Text provides an essential foundation for promoting the health and wellness of mothers and newborns. This edition includes the latest advances and practice standards in maternity nursing care, highlighting Healthy People 2020 and the 2011 Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals. Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this text addresses the knowledge, skills, and scope of practice appropriate for LPN/LVN and LPN/LVN-to-ADN ladder programs.

KEY FEATURES

• Chronological organization of content follows a sequence from family issues, fetal development, pregnancy, labor, birth, and care of the newborn, to postpartum issues with special social, familial, and cultural considerations.
• Organization of concepts in each chapter by simple to complex and from health to illness makes it easier to locate and understand the material.
• Complete, concise coverage includes a table of physiologic and psychosocial changes throughout the pregnancy, unique content on CPR for the pregnant patient and infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy, a pictorial story of a vaginal birth, cultural considerations of pregnancy and maternal care, and nursing responses to loss, death, and grief.
• UNIQUE! A FREE Study Guide in the back of the book reinforces understanding with multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, scenario-based clinical situation questions, and online activities.
• Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions help in understanding how a care plan is developed, how to evaluate care of a patient, and how to apply your knowledge to clinical scenarios.
• Health Promotion boxes and content focus on family-centered care, health promotion, illness prevention, and women's health issues.
• Clinical Pathways use an interdisciplinary, collaborative-care approach in tracking interventions along a timeline from assessment to discharge and follow up.
• Online resources for further research and study are included at the end of each chapter.
• UNIQUE! LPN Threads make learning easier, featuring a 10th-grade reading level, key terms with phonetic pronunciations and text page references, chapter objectives, special features boxes, and full-color art, photographs, and design.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Coverage of the latest advances in nursing care includes fetal heart rate monitoring during labor and delivery and revised diabetes classifications.
• Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! section at the end of each chapter includes key points, review questions, and critical thinking questions for individual, small group, or classroom review.
• Safety Alert! boxes highlight 2011 Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals, with special consideration for serious and potentially fatal medication errors.
• Easily recognizable icons for standard steps are included in each skill (e.g., hand hygiene).
• UNIQUE! Icons in page margins point to relevant animations and video clips on the companion Evolve website.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Unit One: Social and Family Dynamics
• 1. Contemporary Maternity Care, Family, and Cultural Considerations
• 2. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

• Unit Two: Development of the Fetus
• 3. Fetal Development

• Unit Three: Pregnancy
• 4. Physiologic and Psychologic Changes During Pregnancy
• 5. Health Care and Fetal Assessment During Pregnancy

• Unit Four: Labor and Birth
• 6. Process of Normal Labor
• 7. Nursing Care During Labor
• 8 . Management of Pain During Labor

• Unit Five: The Newborn
• 9. Physiologic Adaptation of the Newborn and Nursing Assessment
• 10. Nursing Care of the Newborn
• 11. Newborn Feeding

• Unit Six: Postpartum Assessment
• 12. Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care

• Unit Seven: Complications of Childbearing
• 13. Health Problems Complicating Pregnancy
• 14. Complications of Labor and Birth
• 15. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Associated with Gestational Age and Development
• 16. The Newborn at Risk: Acquired and Congenital Conditions
• 17. Postpartum Complications

• Unit Eight: Community-Based Care
• 18. The Pregnant Adolescent and Nursing Care in the Community

• Unit Nine: Other Reproductive Issues
• 19. Family Planning and Infertility
• 20. Women's Health Issues
• 21. Complementary and Alternative Therapies

• Appendix A: The Joint Commission's Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols
• Appendix B: Commonly Used Abbreviations in Maternal and Pediatric Nursing
• Appendix C: Common Spanish Phrases for Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
• Appendix D: Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms
• Appendix E: Conversion Tables
• Appendix F: Selected Maternal and Newborn Laboratory Values
• Appendix G: Transfer of Selected Drugs and Other Chemicals into Breast Milk
• Appendix H: Answers to Review Questions for the NCLEX® Examination

• Bibliography and Reader References
• Illustration Credits
• Glossary
• Index
• Study Guide

AUTHOR

By Gloria Leifer, MA, RN, CNE, Professor, Obstetric and Pediatric Nursing, Riverside City College, Riverside, CA