Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans

Description

Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans, Second Edition teaches students and professional nurses how to assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate care for normal and abnormal pregnancy, including delivery and recovery for both the mother and baby. This new edition contains more than 65 of the most common and high-risk care plans for maternal and newborn nursing care using the nursing process approach.

Organized according to clinical condition, Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans, Second Edition provides practical components for each care plan incorporating:

• Key nursing activities
• Etiologies and risk factors
• Signs and symptoms
• Diagnostic studies
• Medical management
• Collaborative problems
• Individualized care plans complete with the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)

Table of Contents

I Introduction
1 How to Use this Book

II Generic Care Plans
2 Nursing Diagnosis Care Plans (Generic)
3 Collaborative Care Plans (Generic)

III Antepartum Care
4 Normal Pregnancy
5 Pregnancy Complicated by Medical and Other Conditions
6 Gestational Complications

IV Intrapartum Care
7 Normal Intrapartum
8 Intrapartum Complications

V Postpartum Care
9 Normal Postpartum Care
10 Postpartum Complications

VI Care of the Newborn
11 Normal Newborn Care
12 Neonatal Complications

About the Author(s)

Carol J. Green, PhD, MN, RN, CNE-Professor, Graceland University School of Nursing, Independence, Missouri

Dr. Carol Green has been a nurse educator for over 28 years. Currently, she teaches in the graduate program at Graceland University School of Nursing in Independence, Missouri. She is the author of Critical Thinking in Nursing: Case Studies across the Curriculum, author of Maternal and Newborn Nursing Care Plans, co-editor of Phipps’s Medical Surgical Nursing, and co-author of the 2011 edition of Swearingen’s Manual of Medical-Surgical Nursing. She holds a PhD, MN and BSN from the University of Kansas, and holds the nurse educator certification from the National League for Nursing. Dr. Green served 20 years in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, retiring as a Captain. Her clinical experience includes maternity, perioperative, postanesthesia recovery, and critical care nursing in addition to her teaching experience. She has made numerous national presentations on critical thinking, test item writing, immunology and renal nursing.