Maternal-Child Nursing - E-Book

Sharon Smith Murray

Emily Slone McKinney

Kristine Nelson

Susan R. James

Jean Ashwill

Saunders

With easy-to-read coverage of nursing care for women and newborns, Foundations of Maternal-Newborn & Women's Health Nursing, 6th Edition shows how to provide safe, competent care in the clinical setting. Evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, client teaching, and clinical decision making. Written by specialists in maternity nursing, Sharon Smith Murray and Emily Slone McKinney, this text reflects the latest QSEN competencies, and the accompanying Evolve website includes review questions to prepare you for the NCLEX® exam!Nursing Care Plans help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations.Procedure boxes provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills, with rationales for each step.UNIQUE! Therapeutic Communications boxes present realistic nurse-patient dialogues, identifying communication techniques and showing to respond when encountering communication blocks.Communication Cues offer tips for interpreting patients’ and families’ verbal and nonverbal communication.Critical Thinking exercises focus on clinical situations designed to test your skills in prioritizing and critical thinking.Updated drug guides list important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications.Check Your Reading helps you assess your mastery of key content.Critical to Remember boxes highlight and summarize need-to-know information.Want to Know boxes provide guidelines for successful client education.Glossary provides definitions of all key terms. NEW! Safety Alerts help you develop competencies related to QSEN and safe nursing practice.NEW! Unfolding case studies help you apply what you’ve learned to practice.UPDATED Evidence-Based Practice boxes highlight the latest research and the most current QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) practice guidelines for quality care.UPDATED content includes the late preterm infant, fetal heart rate pattern identification, obesity in the pregnant woman, and the QSEN competencies.

Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing - E-Book

Study Guide for Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing

Elsevier Health Sciences (US)

<p>Clinical Companion for Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing is a hands-on, accessible reference for students and practitioners in the clinical setting. Its outline format provides at-a-glance coverage of antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care of women and infants, as well as childbearing complications and women's health. Step-by-step descriptions of common procedures in maternal-newborn nursing, reference tables for specific medications, and patient-family teaching tips are included.</p>
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<li>Concise outline format allows brief yet thorough coverage of antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care of women and infants.</li>
<li>Step-by-step procedures are presented for all aspects of maternal-newborn care.</li>
<li>Important physical changes that occur during labor are summarized.</li>
<li>Drug Guides outline indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications, making a separate clinical drug reference guide unnecessary.</li>
<li>Clinical Tips suggest practical communication techniques and recommend effective ways of interpreting and responding to client and family statements and behaviors.</li>
<li>Numerous tables highlight key information related to the childbearing process, including normal values of common laboratory and diagnostic tests.</li>
<li>Handy size makes the book easy to carry in the pocket of a lab coat for quick reference.</li>
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<li>Content has been thoroughly updated in key areas, including infertility, sexually transmitted infections, and women's health.</li>
<li>Critical-to-Remember boxes highlight vital nursing concerns, such as danger signs during pregnancy, behaviors associated with substance abuse, and facts about HIV.</li>
<li>Patient &amp; Family Teaching Tips help the patient and her family understand routine nursing care, complications, and procedures.</li>
<li>A new appendix provides information on herbal and botanical preparations and their risks for use during pregnancy and lactation.</li>
<li>A new community and home health care appendix lists resources that may be useful to the patient and her family.</li>
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Clinical Companion for Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing

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