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Maternity and Women's Health Care

  • 13th Edition - March 9, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Kitty Cashion, Kathryn Rhodes Alden, Ellen Olshansky, Shannon E. Perry
  • Language: English

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Maternal/Child**This comprehensive maternity book is now even better! Maternity and Women's Health Care, 13th Edition provides evidence… Read more

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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Maternal/Child**

This comprehensive maternity book is now even better! Maternity and Women's Health Care, 13th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. In addition to emphasizing childbearing concerns like newborn care, it also addresses wellness promotion and management of women's health problems. In describing the continuum of care, it integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, and community-based care. New guidelines are incorporated with updated content throughout, focusing on prioritization of care and interprofessional care.

Key features

  • Expert authors of the market-leading maternity nursing textbook deliver the most accurate, up-to-date content
  • Signs of Potential Complications highlight vital concerns, alerting you to signs and symptoms of complications and the immediate interventions to provide
  • Cultural Considerations stress the importance of considering the beliefs and health practices of clients and their families from various cultures when providing care
  • Medication Guides provide key information about commonly used medications with specific nursing implications
  • Medication Alerts highlighted and integrated within the content alert readers to critical drug information that must be considered to provide safe client care
  • Safety Alerts highlighted and integrated within the content draw attention to developing competencies related to safe nursing practice
  • Nursing Care Plans identify priority client problems and concerns, along with appropriate interventions and rationales
  • Community Activity boxes focus on maternal and newborn activities that can be pursued in local community settings and online and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings, including assisting clients in locating resources
  • Emergency boxes provide information about various emergency situations and offer a quick reference in critical situations
  • Teaching for Self-Management boxes highlight important information that nurses need to communicate to clients and families for follow-up care

Table of contents

Part 1. Introduction to Maternity and Women’s Health Care

1. 21st-Century Maternity and Women’s Health Nursing

2. Community Care. The Family and Culture

3. Nursing and Genomics

Part 2. Women’s Health

4. Assessment and Health Promotion

5. Violence Against Women

6. Reproductive System Concerns

7. Sexually Transmitted and Other Infections

8. Contraception and Abortion

9. Infertility

10. Problems of the Breast

11. Structural Disorders and Neoplasms of the Reproductive System

Part 3. Pregnancy

12. Conception and Fetal Development

13. Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy

14. Nursing Care of the Family During Pregnancy

15. Maternal Nutrition

Part 4. Labor and Birth

16. Labor and Birth Processes

17. Maximizing Comfort for the Laboring Person

18. Fetal Assessment During Labor

19. Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and Birth

Part 5. Postpartum

20. Postpartum Anatomical and Physiologic Changes

21. Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum Period

22. Transition to Parenthood

Part 6. The Newborn

23. Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn

24. Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family

25. Newborn Nutrition and Feeding

Part 7. Complications of Pregnancy

26. Assessment of High-Risk Pregnancy

27. Hypertensive Disorders

28. Hemorrhagic Disorders

29. Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders

30. Medical-Surgical Disorders

31. Mental Health Disorders and Substance Abuse

32. Labor and Birth at Risk

33. Postpartum Complications

Part 8. Newborn Complications

34. Nursing Care of the High-Risk Newborn

35. Acquired Problems of the Newborn

36. Hemolytic Disorders and Congenital Anomalies

37. Perinatal Loss, Bereavement, and Grief

Product details

  • Edition: 13
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 29, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

DL

Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk

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

SP

Shannon E. Perry

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