Explains how to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate care for pregnancy, delivery, recovery, abnormal conditions, and newborn care. Features more than 65 of the most common and high-risk care plans for nursing care using the nursing process approach, this text includes NIC interventions, discussions on collaborative problems, key nursing activities, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic studies. --From publisher description.

A better way to learn maternal and newborn nursing! This unique presentation provides tightly focused maternal-newborn coverage in a highly structured text

UNIT 1 Planning Nursing Care 1. Nursing Process UNIT 2 Pregnancy/Antepartum Period 2. Genetic Counseling 3. Trimesters 4. High-risk Pregnancy 5. Cardiac Conditions in Pregnancy 6. Pregnancy-induced Hypertension 7. Diabetes Mellitus: Pre-pregnancy/Gestational 8. Prenatal Hemorrhage 9. Prenatal Infection 10. Premature Dilation of Cervix (Incompetent/Dysfunctional Cervix) 11. Spontaneous Termination of Pregnancy/Abortion 12. Elective Termination 13. Preterm Labor/Prevention of Delivery 14. Pregnant Adolescent 15. Prenatal Substance Abuse/Dependence UNIT 3 Intrapartum Period 16. Labor Stage I: Latent Phase 17. Labor Stage I: Active Phase 18. Labor Stage I: Transition Phase (Deceleration) 19. Labor Stage II: Expulsion of Fetus 20. Labor Stage III: Placental Expulsion 21. Dysfunctional Labor/Dystocia 22. Labor Induction/Augmentation 23. Cesarean Delivery 24. Precipitous Labor/Delivery 25. Intrapartal Hypertension 26. Intrapartal Diabetes Mellitus UNIT 4 Postpartum Period 27. Labor Stage IV: First Four Hours Following Delivery of the Placenta 28. Four Hours to Two Days Postpartum 29. Care Following Cesarean Delivery (4 Hours to 3 Days) 30. Client at 24 to 48 Hours Following Discharge 31. Client at One Week Following Discharge 32. Postpartal Hemorrhage 33. Puerperal Infection 34. Postpartal Diabetes Mellitus 35. Puerperal Thrombophlebitis 36. Parents of Newborns with Special Needs 37. Perinatal Loss UNIT 5 Newborn Period 38. Neonate: First Hour of Life 39. Neonate at Two Hours to Two Days of Age 40. Neonate at Two Days to One Week Following Discharge 41. Preterm Infant 42. Newborn Having Hyperbilirubinemia 43. Neonate of an HIV-Positive Mother 44. Deviations in Growth Patterns 45. Infant of an Addicted Mother 46. Neonatal Circumcision Bibliography Index

Discusses HOW things happen with concise descriptions of normal physiologic changes in pregnancy, disease processes, and procedures. Explains WHY things happen with special sections highlighting the physiology of pregnancy, the pathophysiology of diseases, and the evidence base for procedures and interventions. Provides prioritized, step-by-step lists of nursing interventions. Promotes patient education by explaining complex health-care information in language patients will understand. Presents verbatim nurse-patient interactions to use as models for your own approach to asking questions and talking with patients. Highlights potentially life-threatening issues and the appropriate interventions with "Alerts" throughout the text. Provides a wealth of valuable tools and resources, including... "Why is this Important," rationales for important topics. "Tips," non-clinical, but important information and suggestions. "Patient Education," tips for helping patients to understand their health status. "Offering Support," compassionate care advice. "Best Practice," advice from expert practitioners. Common mnemonics, tricks to help you remember what to do and when. Die-cut cervical dilation guide for quick reference.

Master the essentials of maternity and pediatric nursing with this comprehensive, all-in-one text! Maternal Child Nursing Care, 7th Edition covers the issues and concerns of women during their childbearing years and children during their developing years. It uses a family-centered, problem-solving approach to patient care, with guidelines supported by evidence-based practice. New to this edition is an emphasis on clinical judgment skills and a new chapter on children with integumentary dysfunction. Written by a team of experts led by Shannon E. Perry and Marilyn J. Hockenberry, this book provides the accurate information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the Next Generation NCLEX-RN® examination. - Focus on the family throughout the text emphasizes the influence of the entire family in health and illness. - Expert authors of the market-leading maternity and pediatric nursing textbooks combine to ensure delivery of the most accurate, up-to-date content. - Information on victims of sexual abuse as parents and human trafficking helps prepare students to handle these delicate issues. - Nursing Alerts highlight critical information that could lead to deteriorating or emergency situations. - Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow format. - Evidence-Based Practice boxes include findings from recent clinical studies. - Emergency Treatment boxes describe the signs and symptoms of emergency situations and provide step-by-step interventions. - Atraumatic Care boxes teach students how to manage pain and provide competent care to pediatric patients with the least amount of physical or psychological stress. - Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, provide resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings. - Patient Teaching boxes highlight important information nurses need to communicate to patients and families. - Cultural Considerations boxes describe beliefs and practices relating to pregnancy, labor and birth, parenting, and women's health. - Family-Centered Care boxes draw attention to the needs or concerns of families that students should consider to provide family-centered care.

This is an easy-to-use reference with nursing care plans for healthy clients during pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum, and the newborn periods. Additional diagnoses and plans are included for common perinatal and neonatal complications. The user can easily design a client-specific plan of care with interventions that are based on the latest research and current practice.

This edition contains 189 care plans covering the most common nursing diagnoses and clinical problems in medical-surgical nursing. It includes four new disorders care plans, SARS, lyme disease, west Nile virus, and obstructive sleep apnea.

The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.

This reference is a compilation of care plans for the most commonly encountered clinical problems a nurse is likely to encounter. Written by practicing nurses for students and practitioners, this book serves as both a valuable reference and learning resource.

The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.