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Maternity and Women's Health Care. Edition No. 13

  • Book

  • September 2023
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5798036
- NEW! Case studies for the Next Generation NCLEX?. - NEW! Content on COVID-19 includes current recommendations from professional organizations related to vaccines and the care of pregnant women and newborns. - UPDATED! Increased coverage of the needs of nontraditional families. - UPDATED! Coverage of legislative changes that affect health care delivery in the United States. - UPDATED! Current recommendations and practice changes from professional organizations, such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the Association for Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). - UPDATED! Enhanced content on client- and family-centered care focuses on diversity and cultural assessment. - UPDATED! Added emphasis on racial disparities in relation to women's health and childbearing. - UPDATED! Cutting-edge content on treatments for breast cancer.

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 Woman
18. Fetal Assessment During Labor
19. Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and Birth
Part 5. Postpartum
20. Postpartum 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 Complications
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
Glossary

Authors

Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk Clinical Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. Kitty Cashion Clinical Nurse Specialist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA. Kathryn Rhodes Alden Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. Ellen Olshansky Professor Emerita,Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and Founding Director,Program in Nursing Science,University of California Irvine,Irvine, California. Shannon E. Perry Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.