Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing (Paperback, 7)

PART I:? FOUNDATIONS FOR NURSING CARE OF THE CHILDBEARING FAMILIES

1. Maternity and Women’s Health Care Today

2. Social, Ethical and Legal Issues

3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing

PART II: THE FAMILY BEFORE BIRTH

5. Conception and Prenatal Development

6. Maternal Adaptations to Pregnancy

7. Antepartum Assessment, Care and Education

8. Nutrition for Childbearing

9. Assessing the Fetus

10. Complications of Pregnancy

11. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs

PART III: THE FAMILY DURING BIRTH

12. Processes of Birth

13. Pain management during Childbirth

14. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance

15. Nursing Care During Labor and Birth

16. Intrapartum Complications

PART IV: THE FAMILY FOLLOWING BIRTH

17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care

18. Postpartum Maternal Complications

19. Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation

20. Assessment of the Normal Newborn

21. Care of the Normal Newborn

22. Infant Feeding

23. High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development

24. High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions

PART VI: WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE

25. Family Planning

26. Infertility

27. Women’s Health Care

Appendixes

A. Use of Drugs and Botanical Preparations during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

B. Answers to Knowledge Check

C. Answers to Critical Thinking Exercises

Glossary