Foundations of maternal-newborn and women's health nursing / Sharon Smith Murray, Emily Slone McKinney.

Revised edition of: Foundations of maternal-newborn nursing / Sharon Smith Murray, Emily Slone McKinney. 4th ed. c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Foundations for Nursing Care of Childbearing Families -- Maternity and Women's Health Care Today -- The Nurse's Role in Maternity and Women's Health Care -- Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues -- Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology -- Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing -- Part II. The Family Before Birth -- Conception and Prenatal Development -- Physiologic Adaptations to Pregnancy -- Psychosocial Adaptations to Pregnancy -- Nutrition for Childbearing -- Antepartal Fetal Assessment -- Perinatal Education -- Part III. The Family During Birth -- Processes of Birth -- Nursing Care During Labor and Birth -- Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance -- Pain Management During Childbirth -- Nursing Care During Obstetric Procedures -- Part IV. The Family Following Birth -- Postpartum Physiologic Adaptations -- Postpartum Psychosocial Adaptations -- Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation -- Assessment of the Normal Newborn -- Care of the Normal Newborn -- Infant Feeding -- Home Care of the Infant -- Part V. Families at Risk during the Childbearing Period -- The Childbearing Family with Special Needs -- Complications of Pregnancy -- Concurrent Disorders During Pregnancy -- Intrapartum Complications -- Postpartum Maternal Complications -- High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development -- High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and -- Congenital Conditions -- Part VI. Women's Health Care -- Family Planning -- Infertility -- Preventive Care for Women -- Women's Health Problems.

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