Maternal-child Nursing Care

MATERNAL-CHILD NURSING CARE, 2ND EDITION covers the essential content for the maternity and pediatric nursing courses combined in one affordable text. The inclusion of expert authors, contributors, and reviewers ensures delivery of accurate and up-to-date content in both maternity and pediatric areas. The authors are also noted for their clear writing style that makes content easy to read and understand.The following are the key features retained for the second edition: Nursing Care Plans, Nurse Alerts, Guidelines, Emergency Treatment, Home Care, Cultural Awareness, Family Focus, Patient Teaching and Critical Thinking Exercises. The second edition will also include a new full-color design, greater emphasis on community care and research throughout.

· Expert authors ensure delivery of accurate and up-to-date maternity and pediatric content
· Authors' clear writing style makes content easy to read and understand
· Focus on the family throughout emphasizes the influence of family in health and illness
· Nursing Care Plans, including rationales for interventions, provide students with an overview and specific quidelines for delivering effective nursing care
· Nurse Alerts point out critical information that students should not overlook when treating patients
· Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow fashion
· Emergency boxes highlight emergency procedures in a step-by-step format to help students understand how to perform them
· Home Care boxes detail important information to help prepare students to deliver care to patients and families in the home setting
· Atraumatic Care boxes (in the pediatric section) teach students to provide competent care without creating undue physical or psychological stress to the patient
· Critical Thinking boxes provide students with case scenarios that depict real life situations to help them choose the best intervention and make good clinical judgements
· Patient Teaching boxes (in the maternity section) highlight content students can share with patients and families to help them meet or exceed expected outcomes
· Cultural Considerations boxes provide students with information to help them deliver culturally competent car
· Family Focus boxes highlight the needs or concerns of families that students should consider when family-centered care is provided

· NEW Chapter 3, Community and Home Care, provides a basis for understanding community aspects of maternity care
· Unit 2, Reproductive Years, provides students with a thorough understanding of health promotion and prevention, common health concerns, contraception, infertility, and abortion related to the care of women throughout the childbearing years
· Two NEW chapters, Pre-Existing Conditions (13) and Gestational Conditions (14) focus on the care and treatment of pregnant women with conditions she had prior to becoming pregnant and those she acquired during pregancy
· NEW Chapter 21, Assessment and Care During the Fourth Trimester focuses on nursing care management of the physical and psychosocial needs of the mother and on discharge teaching during the fourth trimester (postpartum)
· NEW Chapter 22, Transition to Parenthood, focuses on assisting parents in adapting to parenthood, and includes practical suggestions for the first weeks at home after the birth
· NEW Chapter 29, Community-Based Care of the Child and Family, provides students with an understanding of how to provide care for patients outside of the acute care setting
· An inviting full-color design with over 1,000 colorful photographs and line drawings has been added to enhance the overall visual appeal of the text
· Community Focus boxes have been added throughout to highlight information on how to provide care in community settings

(Includes a FREE MERLIN website at:www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Wong/maternal/)