Study Guide for Safe Maternity & Pediatric Nursing Care

Unit One: Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
1. Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
2. Culture
3. Women’s Health Promotion Across the Life Span

Unit Two: Pregnancy and the Family
4. Human Reproduction and Fetal Development
5. Physical and Psychological Changes of Pregnancy
6. Nursing Care During Pregnancy
7. Promoting a Healthy Pregnancy
8. Nursing Care of the Woman With Complications During Pregnancy

Unit Three: Birth and the Family
9. Nursing Care During Labor and Childbirth
10. Nursing Care of the Woman With Complications During Labor and Birth
11. Birth-Related Procedures

Unit Four: Postpartum Period and the Family
12. Postpartum Nursing Care
13. Postpartum Complications

Unit Five: The Newborn
14. Physiological and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn
15. Nursing Care of the Newborn
16. Newborn Nutrition
17. Nursing Care of the Newborn at Risk

Unit Six: Growth and Development
18. Health Promotion of the Infant: Birth to One Year
19. Health Promotion of the Toddler
20. Health Promotion of the Preschooler
21. Health Promotion of the School-Aged Child
22. Health Promotion of the Adolescent

Unit Seven: Pediatric Concerns and Considerations
23. Nursing Care of the Hospitalized Child
24. Acutely Ill Children and Their Needs
25. Adapting to Chronic Illness and Supporting the Family Unit
26. The Abused Child

Unit Eight: Deviations in Pediatric Health
27. Child With a Neurological Condition
28. Child With a Sensory Impairment
29. Child With a Mental Health Condition
30. Child With a Respiratory Condition
31. Child With a Cardiac Condition
32. Child With a Metabolic Condition
33. Child With a Musculoskeletal Condition
34. Child With a Gastrointestinal Condition
35. Child With a Genitourinary Condition
36. Child With a Skin Condition
37. Child With a Communicable Disease
38. Child With an Oncological or Hematological Condition

The perfect companion to Safe Maternity & Pediatric Nursing Care, 2nd Edition!

Each chapter in the Study Guide corresponds to a chapter in the text. Exercise by exercise, activity by activity, you’ll develop your critical-thinking and problem-solving skills while mastering the principles, concepts, and procedures essential to success in the classroom and in practice.

• Vocabulary exercises, including true/false, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and crossword puzzles
• Summary box exercise featuring multiple-choice, Post-Conference and Conceptual Cornerstone short-answer questions, and Patient Teaching Guidelines essay questions
• NCLEX^®-style review questions
• Short-answer exercises about cultural considerations, learn to C.U.S., therapeutic communication, and Safety Stat! as well as teamwork and laboratory and diagnostic case studies
• Nursing care plan and concept map exercises
• Drawing and completion
• Revised & Updated! Thoroughly updated to reflect the art and the science of LPN/LVN practice as well as the newest evidence and changes in health care to parallel its companion text