Download or read book Maternity Nursing Care Book Only written by Lynna Y. Littleton-Gibbs and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2012-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MATERNITY NURSING CARE, 2nd Edition delivers all of the core components of obstetrical nursing, along with in-depth study features to help you develop and enhance analytical skills. Starting with women's health issues and pregnancy care, the chapters progress through labor and childbirth, postpartum care, and newborn development, addressing the nursing considerations for both normal and high-risk scenarios where appropriate. Written from a nursing perspective, MATERNITY NURSING CARE, 2ND Edition emphasizes overall patient care as opposed to medical treatment alone, and illustrates the critical importance of fostering the nurse-patient relationship. MATERNITY NURSING CARE, 2ND Edition is also bound with a helpful StudyWARETM online, which includescase studies, NCLEX-style review questions, videos, activities, a glossary, and many other features to help you meet and exceed the highest standards of obstetrical nursing care. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Download or read book Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing E Book written by Gloria Leifer and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a solid foundation in maternity and pediatric nursing! Written in a clear, concise, friendly style, Introduction to Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, 8th Edition is the complete guide to caring for maternity and pediatric patients. This best-selling text is organized by developmental stages, discussions of pediatric disorders by body system from simple-to-complex and health-to-illness, and includes a focus on family health. This edition also contains newly updated NCLEX® style review questions, new case studies, new content on zika virus, QSEN and safety, and expanded phases of pregnancy. - Evidence-based maternal-child content prepares you for the LVN/LPN to achieve higher levels of learning, a goal expressed by the IOM Committee on the Future of Nursing. - Over 42 detailed, updated nursing skills introduce you to skills unique to maternity and pediatric care. - Over 25 nursing care plans feature seven different formats/themes/styles, including unfolding case studies. - The beginning concepts of critical thinking introduces you to this idea as a basis for clinical nursing care. - Updated content on the influence of microbiomes on non-invasive pregnancy and newborn nursing care addresses its impact on the adult health of the newborn. - Step-by-step application of the nursing process covers the hospital, home, community and use in improving global health. - Expanded cultural practices as they relate to pregnancy, delivery and pediatric care in the community. - Coverage of the use of expanding new technologies and computerized medication administration reinforce the nursing process and strengthen problem-solving skills as applied to maternity nursing. - NEW! Discussion of new health threats include in-depth coverage of the Zika virus and Influenza - NEW! Updated guidelines for hypertension and immunizations for infants and children. - NEW! Updated QSEN goals and nursing responsibilities reflect the most recent changes. - NEW! Expanded phases of pregnancy includes preconceptual, prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum and interconceptual care and nursing responsibilities. - NEW! Updated nursing responsibilities related to global health reflect the "Baby Friendly Hospital" WHO initiative and interprofessional nursing communication related to nursing "hand-off care" and shift change reports. - NEW! Updated NCLEX® exam-style review questions have been revised with alternate item formats at the end of each chapter. - NEW! Expanded nursing and safety tips throughout include evidence-based online resources which provide pertinent information applicable in the clinical setting that reinforces what you have just learned while building on previously learned information. - NEW! Expanded coverage of bioterrorism better reflects trauma related to pregnancy and pediatric care.

Download or read book Maternal Child Nursing Care written by Shannon E. Perry and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 1890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the foremost experts in maternity and pediatric nursing, Maternal Child Nursing Care, 5th Edition offers the accurate, practical information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the NCLEX® examination. This new edition offers numerous content updates throughout the text to keep you up-to-date on the latest topics and best practices. Plus hundreds of illustrations, alert boxes, and tables clarify key content and help you quickly find essential information. Atraumatic Care boxes in the pediatric unit teach you how to provide competent and effective care to pediatric patients with the least amount of physical or psychological stress.Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, supply resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings.Critical thinking case studies offer opportunities to test and develop your analytical skills and apply knowledge in various settings.Emergency boxes in the maternity unit guide you through step-by-step emergency procedures.Expert authors of the market-leading maternity and pediatric nursing textbooks combine to ensure delivery of the most accurate, up-to-date content.Family-Centered Care boxes highlight the needs or concerns of families that you should consider to provide family-centered care. NEW! Content updates throughout the text give you the latest information on topics such as the late preterm infant, fetal heart rate pattern identification, obesity in the pregnant woman, shaken baby syndrome/traumatic brain injury, Healthy People 2020, car restraints, immunizations, and childhood obesity.NEW! Updated Evidence-Based Practice boxes including QSEN KSAs (knowledge, skills, attitudes) provide the most current practice guidelines to promote quality care.NEW! Medication Alerts stress medication safety concerns for better therapeutic management.NEW! Safety Alerts highlighted and integrated within the content draw attention to developing competencies related to safe nursing practice.

Download or read book Maternity Nursing Revised Reprint written by Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC, PhD, FAAN and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to meet the needs of today's students, Lowdermilk's Maternity Nursing, 8th Edition - Revised Reprint addresses the fundamentals of maternity nursing with a concise, focused presentation of the care of women during the childbearing years. Integrating considerations for family, culture, and health promotion into the continuum of care, it also addresses community-based care to emphasize that nursing care takes place in many settings. Maternity Nursing focuses on childbearing issues and concerns, including care of the newborn, as well as wellness promotion and management of common women's health problems. Critical thinking exercises present case studies of real-life situations and corresponding critical thinking questions to help you develop your analytical skills. NEW! A helpful appendix identifies text content that reflects the QSEN competencies - patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics - to assist you in developing competencies to provide safe and effective nursing care. NEW! Focus on the family recognizes the nurse's need to integrate the family in the care of the mother and newborn and the importance of the role of the mother to the wellbeing of the family. NEW! Content updates throughout, including information on the late preterm infant and associated concerns such as feeding; guidelines on prioritization and delegation where relevant; and centering pregnancy, a new model of health care that brings women together in groups for their care. NEW! Evidence-based practice content focuses your attention on how to use current research to improve patient outcomes. NEW! Improved readability helps you learn more efficiently with shorter, more focused content discussions. NEW! 21st Century Maternity Nursing: Culturally Competent, Community Focused chapter combines introductory material, culture, and community into one chapter to help you focus on key content and concepts. NEW! Streamlined content highlights the most essential, need-to-know information.

Download or read book Maternal Child Nursing written by Emily Slone McKinney, MSN, RN, C and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 1599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for accelerated maternity and pediatrics courses, Maternal-Child Nursing, 4th Edition is filled with user-friendly features to help you quickly master essential concepts and skills. It offers completely updated content that's easy to read and understand. Plus, active learning tools give you the chance to practice applying your knowledge and make learning fun! Critical Thinking Exercises allow you to apply your knowledge to realistic clinical situations. Nursing care plans assist you with applying the nursing process to plan individualized care for the most common maternity and pediatric conditions. Critical to Remember boxes summarize and highlight essential, need-to-know information. Communication Cues provide practical tips for effective verbal and nonverbal communication with patients and families. Clinical Reference sections in pediatric chapters present information relevant to each body system, including anatomy and physiology, differences in the pediatric patient, and related laboratory and diagnostic tests. Integrated electronic features match icons in the text, so you can use print and electronic resources more effectively together. Using Research to Improve Practice boxes help you determine proper care to reinforce best practice. Spanish translations are included for phrases commonly encountered with maternity and pediatric patients. Improved design makes the text easier to read, and up-to-date photos ensure accuracy.

Download or read book Maternal Child Nursing Care Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers Children Families written by Susan Ward and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 1765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It offers the perfect balance of maternal and child nursing care with the right depth and breadth of coverage for students in today’s maternity/pediatric courses. A unique emphasis on optimizing outcomes, evidence-based practice, and research supports the goal of caring for women, families and children, not only in traditional hospital settings, but also wherever they live, work, study, or play. Clear, concise, and easy to follow, the content is organized around four major themes, holistic care, critical thinking, validating practice, and tools for care that help students to learn and apply the material.

Download or read book Delmar s Maternal Infant Nursing Care Plans Book Only written by Karla L. Luxner and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans, 2nd edition, provides detailed information on caring for clients during pregnancy, labor and delivery, the postpartum period, and the newborn/infant period. All the information needed to develop specific and effective nursing care plans for clients in the maternal and newborn periods is included. Each care plan presents information to guide users in developing comprehensive individualized nursing care plans based on solid scientific understanding of the physiological, psychological, and social events surrounding childbirth. Care plans solicit specific client data and prompt the user to individualize the interventions, consider cultural relevance, and evaluate the client's individual response.

Download or read book Maternity and Women s Health Care E Book written by Kathryn Rhodes Alden and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With comprehensive coverage of maternal, newborn, and women's health nursing, Maternity & Women's Health Care, 10th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. It's the #1 maternity book in the market -- and now respected authors Dr. Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Dr, Shannon E. Perry, Kitty Cashion, and Kathryn R. Alden have improved readability and provided a more focused approach! Not only does this text emphasize childbearing issues and concerns, including care of the newborn, it addresses wellness promotion and management of common women's health problems. In describing the continuum of care, it integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, and community-based care. New to this edition is the most current information on care of the late preterm infant and the 2008 updated fetal monitoring standards from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. A logical organization builds understanding by presenting wellness content first, then complications. Critical Reasoning exercises offer real-life situations in which you can develop analytical skills and apply their knowledge. Teaching for Self-Management boxes offer a guide to communicating follow-up care to patients and their families. Signs of Potential Complications boxes help you recognize the signs and symptoms of complications and provide immediate interventions. Procedure boxes offer easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions for maternity skills and procedures. Emergency boxes may be used for quick reference in critical situations. Medication Guide boxes provide an important reference for common drugs and their interactions. Cultural Considerations boxes stress the importance of considering the beliefs and health practices of patients from various cultures when providing care. Family content emphasizes the importance of including family in the continuum of care. Nursing Care Plans include specific guidelines and rationales for interventions for delivering effective nursing care. Community Activity exercises introduce activities and nursing care in a variety of local settings. Student resources on the companion Evolve website include assessment and childbirth videos, animations, case studies, critical thinking exercises with answers, nursing skills, anatomy reviews, a care plan constructor, review questions, an audio glossary, and more.

Download or read book Obstetrical Nursing written by Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Obstetrical Nursing" (A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby) by Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Maternity Nursing written by Gloria Leifer and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Coverage of the latest advances in nursing care includes fetal heart rate monitoring during labor and delivery and revised diabetes classifications. - Get Ready for the NCLEX® Examination! section at the end of each chapter includes key points, review questions, and critical thinking questions for individual, small group, or classroom review. - Safety Alert! boxes highlight 2011 Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals, with special consideration for serious and potentially fatal medication errors. - Easily recognizable icons for standard steps are included in each skill (e.g., hand hygiene). - UNIQUE! Icons in page margins point to relevant animations and video clips on the companion Evolve website.

Download or read book Safe Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Care written by Luanne Linnard-Palmer and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally! A new OB/peds textbook that focuses on what LPNs must know. You’ll find just the right depth and breadth of coverage with a focus on the knowledge and skills that LPNs need to know to practice safely.

Download or read book All in One Nursing Care Planning Resource written by Pamela L. Swearingen and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book featuring nursing care plans for all core clinical areas, Swearingen's All-In-One Nursing Care Planning Resource, 4th Edition provides 100 care plans with the nursing diagnoses and interventions you need to know to care for patients in all settings. It includes care plans for medical-surgical, maternity/OB, pediatrics, and psychiatric-mental health, so you can use just one book throughout your entire nursing curriculum. This edition includes a new care plan addressing normal labor and birth, a new full-color design, new QSEN safety icons, new quick-reference color tabs, and updates reflecting the latest NANDA-I nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems. Edited by nursing expert Pamela L. Swearingen, this book is known for its clear approach, easy-to-use format, and straightforward rationales. NANDA-I nursing diagnoses are incorporated throughout the text to keep you current with NANDA-I terminology and the latest diagnoses. Color-coded sections for medical-surgical, maternity, pediatric, and psychiatric-mental health nursing care plans make it easier to find information quickly. A consistent format for each care plan allows faster lookup of topics, with headings for Overview/Pathophysiology, Health Care Setting, Assessment, Diagnostic Tests, Nursing Diagnoses, Desired Outcomes, Interventions with Rationales, and Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning. Prioritized nursing diagnoses are listed in order of importance and physiologic patient needs. A two-column format for nursing assessments/interventions and rationales makes it easier to scan information. Detailed rationales for each nursing intervention help you to apply concepts to specific patient situations in clinical practice. Outcome criteria with specific timelines help you to set realistic goals for nursing outcomes and provide quality, cost-effective care. NEW! Care plan for normal labor and birth addresses nursing care for the client experiencing normal labor and delivery. UPDATED content is written by practicing clinicians and covers the latest clinical developments, new pharmacologic treatments, patient safety considerations, and evidence-based practice guidelines. NEW full-color design makes the text more user friendly, and includes NEW color-coded tabs and improved cross-referencing and navigation aids for faster lookup of information. NEW! Leaf icon highlights coverage of complementary and alternative therapies including information on over-the-counter herbal and other therapies and how these can interact with conventional medications.

Download or read book Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans written by Carol Green and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwifery & Women's Health

Download or read book Maternity Nursing Care written by Lynna Littleton-Gibbs and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only have time for the essentials? Maternity Nursing Care provides the core components of safe nursing practice for the obstetric client through application of the nursing process. Chronologically organized, the book covers women’s health, pregnancy care, labor and childbirth, postpartum care, and newborn development. Both normal and high-risk pregnancy situations are addressed, including appropriate nursing considerations. Through prioritization of health promotion, emphasizing care over treatment, and fostering the nurse-client relationship, the perspective is uniquely geared to the nurse. Essentially, this is the resource of choice for maternity nursing. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Download or read book Maternal Child Nursing Care and Mynursinglab with Pearson Etext Student Access Code Card written by Marcia L. London and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 1974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal Child Nursing Care written by Susan L. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evidence-based combined OB-/Peds text that addresses the needs of today's nursing students and instructors which expertly balances presentation of nursing care in both areas. Unique emphasis on optimizing outcomes, evidence-based practice, and research supports the goal of caring for women, families and children not only in traditional hospital settings, but also wherever they live, work, study, or play. Clear, concise, and easy to follow, the content is organized around four major themes, holistic care, critical thinking, validating practice, and tools for care that help students to learn and apply the material.

Download or read book Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans written by Carol J. Green and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans, Third Edition teaches students and practicing nurses how to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate care for pregnancy, delivery, recovery, abnormal conditions, and newborn care. Featuring more than 65 of the most common and high-risk care plans for nursing care using the nursing process approach, it includes NIC interventions, discussions on collaborative problems, key nursing activities, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic studies. Using a progressive approach, the text begins with generic care plans that address all patient situations regardless of the patient diagnosis or condition before moving on to more complicated and specific care plans.