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Maternal Child Nursing Care

  • 7th Edition - March 5, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Shannon E. Perry, Marilyn J. Hockenberry, Kitty Cashion, Kathryn Rhodes Alden, Ellen Olshansky, Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk
  • Language: English

Master the essentials of maternity and pediatric nursing with this comprehensive, all-in-one text! Maternal Child Nursing Care, 7th Edition covers the issues and concerns of women… Read more

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Master the essentials of maternity and pediatric nursing with this comprehensive, all-in-one text! Maternal Child Nursing Care, 7th Edition covers the issues and concerns of women during their childbearing years and children during their developing years. It uses a family-centered, problem-solving approach to patient care, with guidelines supported by evidence-based practice. New to this edition is an emphasis on clinical judgment skills and a new chapter on children with integumentary dysfunction. Written by a team of experts led by Shannon E. Perry and Marilyn J. Hockenberry, this book provides the accurate information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the Next Generation NCLEX-RN® examination.

Key features

    • Focus on the family throughout the text emphasizes the influence of the entire family in health and illness
    • Expert authors of the market-leading maternity and pediatric nursing textbooks combine to ensure delivery of the most accurate, up-to-date content
    • Information on victims of sexual abuse as parents and human trafficking helps prepare students to handle these delicate issues
    • Nursing Alerts highlight critical information that could lead to deteriorating or emergency situations
    • Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow format
    • Evidence-Based Practice boxes include findings from recent clinical studies
    • Emergency Treatment boxes describe the signs and symptoms of emergency situations and provide step-by-step interventions
    • Atraumatic Care boxes teach students how to manage pain and provide competent care to pediatric patients with the least amount of physical or psychological stress
    • Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, provide resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings
    • Patient Teaching boxes highlight important information nurses need to communicate to patients and families
    • Cultural Considerations boxes describe beliefs and practices relating to pregnancy, labor and birth, parenting, and women’s health
    • Family-Centered Care boxes draw attention to the needs or concerns of families that students should consider to provide family-centered care

    Table of contents

    PART 1: MATERNITY NURSING
    Unit 1: Introduction to Maternity Nursing


    1. 21st Century Maternity Nursing

    2. The Family, Culture, Spirituality, and Home Care

    Unit 2: Reproductive Years

    3. Assessment and Health Promotion

    4. Reproductive System Concerns

    5. Infertility, Contraception, and Abortion

    Unit 3: Pregnancy

    6. Genetics, Conception, and Fetal Development

    7. Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy

    8. Nursing Care of the Family During Pregnancy

    9. Maternal and Fetal Nutrition

    10. Assessment of High-Risk Pregnancy

    11. High-Risk Perinatal Care: Preexisting Conditions

    12. High-Risk Perinatal Care: Gestational Conditions

    Unit 4: Labor and Birth

    13. Labor and Birth Processes

    14. Maximizing Comfort for the Laboring Woman

    15. Fetal Assessment During Labor

    16. Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and Birth

    17. Labor and Birth Complications

    Unit 5: Postpartum Period

    18. Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn

    19. Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum Period

    20. Transition to Parenthood

    21. Postpartum Complications

    Unit 6: Newborn

    22. Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn

    23. Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family

    24. Newborn Nutrition and Feeding

    25. The High-Risk Newborn

    PART 2: PEDIATRIC NURSING
    Unit 7: Children, Their Families, and the Nurse


    26. 21st Century Pediatric Nursing

    27. Social, Cultural, Religious, and Family Influences on Child Health Promotion

    28. Developmental and Genetic Influences on Child Health Promotion

    Unit 8: Assessment of the Child and Family

    29. Communication and Physical Assessment of the Child and Family

    30. Pain Assessment and Management in Children

    Unit 9: Health Promotion and Special Health Problems

    31. The Infant and Family

    32. The Toddler and Family

    33. The Preschooler and Family

    34. The School-Age Child and Family

    35. Health Promotion of the Adolescent and Family

    Unit 10: Special Needs, Illness, and Hospitalization

    36. Impact of Chronic Illness, Disability, or End-of-Life Care on the Child and Family

    37. Impact of Cognitive or Sensory Impairment on the Child and Family

    38. Family-Centered Care of the Child During Illness and Hospitalization

    39. Pediatric Nursing Interventions and Skills

    Unit 11: Health Problems of Children

    40. The Child with Respiratory Dysfunction

    41. The Child with Gastrointestinal Dysfunction

    42. The Child with Cardiovascular Dysfunction

    43. The Child with Hematologic and Immunologic Dysfunction

    44. The Child with Cancer

    45. The Child with Genitourinary Dysfunction

    46. The Child with Cerebral Dysfunction

    47. The Child with Endocrine Dysfunction

    48. The Child with Musculoskeletal or Articular Dysfunction

    49. The Child with Neuromuscular or Muscular Dysfunction

    50. The Child with Integumentary Dysfunction

    Product details

    • Edition: 7
    • Latest edition
    • Published: April 11, 2022
    • Language: English

    About the authors

    SP

    Shannon E. Perry

    Affiliations and expertise
    Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

    MH

    Marilyn J. Hockenberry

    Marilyn J. Hockenberry is Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Global HOPE Nursing, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas; Bessie Baker Professor Emerita of Nursing Chair, Duke Institutional Review Board, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
    Affiliations and expertise
    Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Global HOPE Nursing, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas; Bessie Baker Professor Emerita of Nursing Chair, Duke Institutional Review Board, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    KC

    Kitty Cashion

    Affiliations and expertise
    Clinical Nurse Specialist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    KA

    Kathryn Rhodes Alden

    Affiliations and expertise
    Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    EO

    Ellen Olshansky

    Affiliations and expertise
    Professor Emerita, Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing and Founding Director, Program in Nursing Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    DL

    Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk

    Affiliations and expertise
    Clinical Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA