Maternity and Women's Health Care
- 13th Edition - March 9, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Kitty Cashion, Kathryn Rhodes Alden, Ellen Olshansky, Shannon E. Perry
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 1 0 1 9 - 7
- LooseLeaf ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 2 9 7 6 - 2
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 1 0 1 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 5 2 3 3 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 1 1 7 7 - 4
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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.
- 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.
Part 1: Introduction to Maternity and Women’s Health Care
Chapter 1: 21st-Century Maternity and Women’s Health Nursing
Chapter 2: Community Care: The Family and Culture
Chapter 3: Nursing and Genomics
Chapter 4: Women’s Health
Chapter 5: Violence and Reproductive System Concerns
Part 2: Reproductive System Concerns
Chapter 6: Reproductive System Concerns
Chapter 7: Contraception and Abortion
Chapter 8: Infertility
Chapter 9: Problems of the Breast
Chapter 10: Structural Disorders and Neoplasms of the Reproductive System
Part 3: Pregnancy
Chapter 11: Pregnancy
Chapter 12: Conception and Fetal Development
Chapter 13: Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy
Chapter 14: Nursing Care of the Family During Pregnancy
Chapter 15: Maternal Nutrition
Part 4: Labor and Birth
Chapter 16: Labor and Birth
Chapter 17: Labor and Birth Processes
Chapter 18: Maximizing Comfort for the Laboring Person
Chapter 19: Fetal Assessment During Labor
Chapter 20: Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and Birth
Part 5: Postpartum and the Newborn
Chapter 21: Postpartum
Chapter 22: Postpartum Anatomical and Physiologic Changes
Chapter 23: Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum Period
Chapter 24: Transition to Parenthood
Chapter 25: The Newborn
Chapter 26: Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn
Chapter 27: Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family
Chapter 28: Newborn Nutrition and Feeding
Chapter 29: Complications of Pregnancy
Chapter 30: Assessment of High-Risk Pregnancy
Chapter 31: Hypertensive Disorders
Chapter 32: Hemorrhagic Disorders
Chapter 33: Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
Chapter 34: Medical-Surgical Disorders
Chapter 35: Acquired Problems of the Newborn
Chapter 36: Hemolytic Disorders and Congenital Anomalies
Chapter 37: Perinatal Loss, Bereavement, and Grief
Chapter 1: 21st-Century Maternity and Women’s Health Nursing
Chapter 2: Community Care: The Family and Culture
Chapter 3: Nursing and Genomics
Chapter 4: Women’s Health
Chapter 5: Violence and Reproductive System Concerns
Part 2: Reproductive System Concerns
Chapter 6: Reproductive System Concerns
Chapter 7: Contraception and Abortion
Chapter 8: Infertility
Chapter 9: Problems of the Breast
Chapter 10: Structural Disorders and Neoplasms of the Reproductive System
Part 3: Pregnancy
Chapter 11: Pregnancy
Chapter 12: Conception and Fetal Development
Chapter 13: Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy
Chapter 14: Nursing Care of the Family During Pregnancy
Chapter 15: Maternal Nutrition
Part 4: Labor and Birth
Chapter 16: Labor and Birth
Chapter 17: Labor and Birth Processes
Chapter 18: Maximizing Comfort for the Laboring Person
Chapter 19: Fetal Assessment During Labor
Chapter 20: Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and Birth
Part 5: Postpartum and the Newborn
Chapter 21: Postpartum
Chapter 22: Postpartum Anatomical and Physiologic Changes
Chapter 23: Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum Period
Chapter 24: Transition to Parenthood
Chapter 25: The Newborn
Chapter 26: Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn
Chapter 27: Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family
Chapter 28: Newborn Nutrition and Feeding
Chapter 29: Complications of Pregnancy
Chapter 30: Assessment of High-Risk Pregnancy
Chapter 31: Hypertensive Disorders
Chapter 32: Hemorrhagic Disorders
Chapter 33: Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
Chapter 34: Medical-Surgical Disorders
Chapter 35: Acquired Problems of the Newborn
Chapter 36: Hemolytic Disorders and Congenital Anomalies
Chapter 37: Perinatal Loss, Bereavement, and Grief
- Edition: 13
- Published: March 9, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323810197
- LooseLeaf ISBN: 9780323829762
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323810180
- eBook ISBN: 9780443352331
- eBook ISBN: 9780323811774
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Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NCKC
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, USAKA
Kathryn Rhodes Alden
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NCEO
Ellen Olshansky
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and Founding Director, Program in Nursing Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CaliforniaSP
Shannon E. Perry
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA