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Maternal-Child Nursing

  • 7th Edition - February 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Jacqueline Carroll, Kari Mau, Susan Rowen James
  • Language: English

Build your nursing skills and make a meaningful difference in the lives of women and children! Maternal-Child Nursing, 7th Edition, makes it easy to understand the essent… Read more

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Build your nursing skills and make a meaningful difference in the lives of women and children! Maternal-Child Nursing, 7th Edition, makes it easy to understand the essentials of women’s health, maternity, and children’s nursing care. Content simplifies the practice of developing clinical judgment skills and providing safe, effective care in evidence-based practice. This edition adds new information on maternal mortality, human trafficking, and other topics. Best of all, active learning tools and features make it fun to master nursing concepts, offering plenty of opportunities to apply your knowledge to the practice setting.

Key features

  • Content simplifies the practice of developing clinical judgment skills to provide safe, effective care in evidence-based practice.
  • Clinical Reference sections in pediatrics chapters provide basic information on disorders and their related anatomy and physiology, differences in body systems between children and adults, commonly used drugs, lab values, diagnostic tests, and procedures
  • Clinical Judgment boxes and case studies highlight situations designed to test clinical judgment skills and help you prepare for the NCLEX® exam
  • Health Promotion boxes describe how to perform a comprehensive assessment of well infants and children at various ages
  • Safety Alerts emphasize what is important to remember when providing safe and optimal quality care
  • Pathophysiology boxes present an illustrated overview of illnesses and how to manage them
  • Want to Know boxes provide patient-teaching guidelines, including sample answers for questions that are likely to be asked or topics that need to be taught
  • Communication Cues offer practical tips for verbal and nonverbal communication with patients and families
  • Glossary at the end of the book provides quick access to all key terms and definitions

Readership

Maternity nursing students in ADN and BSN nursing programs

Table of contents

UNIT I: Introduction to Maternal-Child Health Nursing

1. Foundations of Maternity, Women’s Health, and Child Health Nursing

2. The Nurse’s Role in Maternity, Women’s Health, and Pediatric Nursing

3. The Childbearing and Child-Rearing Family

4. Communicating with Children and Families

5. Health Promotion for the Developing Child

6. Health Promotion for the Infant

7. Health Promotion During Early Childhood

8. Health Promotion for the School-Age Child

9. Health Promotion for the Adolescent

10. Heredity and Environmental Influences on Development

UNIT II: Maternity Nursing Care

11. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

12. Conception and Prenatal Development

13. Adaptations to Pregnancy

14. Nutrition for Childbearing

15. Prenatal Diagnostic Tests

16. Giving Birth

17. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance

18. Pain Management for Childbirth

19. Nursing Care During Obstetric Procedures

20. Postpartum Adaptations

21. The Normal Newborn: Adaptation and Assessment

22. The Normal Newborn: Nursing Care

23. Newborn Feeding

24. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs

25. Pregnancy-Related Complications

26. Concurrent Disorders During Pregnancy

27. The Woman with an Intrapartum Complication

28. The Woman with a Postpartum Complication

29. The High-Risk Newborn: Problems Related to Gestational Age and Development

30. The High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions

31. Management of Fertility and Infertility

32. Women’s Health Care

UNIT III: Pediatric Nursing Care

33. Physical Assessment of Children

34. Emergency Care of the Child

35. The Ill Child in the Hospital and Other Care Settings

36. The Child with a Chronic Condition or Terminal Illness

37. Principles and Procedures for Nursing Care of Children

38. Medication Administration and Safety for Infants and Children

39. Pain Management for Children

40. The Child with a Fluid and Electrolyte Alteration

41. The Child with an Infectious Disease

42. The Child with an Immunologic Alteration

43. The Child with a Gastrointestinal Alteration

44. The Child with a Genitourinary Alteration

45. The Child with a Respiratory Alteration

46. The Child with a Cardiovascular Alteration

47. The Child with a Hematologic Alteration

48. The Child with Cancer

49. The Child with an Alteration in Tissue Integrity

50. The Child with a Musculoskeletal Alteration

51. The Child with an Endocrine or Metabolic Alteration

52. The Child with a Neurologic Alteration

53. Psychosocial Problems in Children and Families

54. The Child with an Intellectual Disability or Developmental Disability

55. The Child with a Sensory Alteration

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the authors

JC

Jacqueline Carroll

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor School of Nursing Curry College Milton, Massachusetts, USA

KM

Kari Mau

Affiliations and expertise
Graduate Program Director Georgia Southern University Nurse Practitioner Chatham County Health Department Savannah, Georgia, USA

SJ

Susan Rowen James

Susan Rowen James, PhD, RN

Professor Emerita

School of Nursing

Curry College

Milton, Massachusetts

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita School of Nursing Curry College Milton, Massachusetts, USA