Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care, 9th edition

Text features and benefits include:

• Helps students prepare effective nursing care plans. Presents detailed instructions for caring for women and newborns facing a wide range of health conditions and challenges.

• Enables students to master key clinical skills. Contains step-by-step directions for performing key procedures ranging from assisting during amniocentesis to performing gavage feeding and auscultation of fetal heart rate.

• Strengthens clinical judgment through realistic case studies. Presents many brief case studies, followed by critical thinking questions asking students to formulate a response.

• Offers reliable, up-to-date information for evidence-based practice. Reflects and calls attention to the latest research in many areas, from preventing pregnancy in high-risk adolescents to managing pain during labor and helping women overcome postpartum depression.

• Gives students realistic practice hints. Presents real-world tips and hints from nursing professionals throughout every chapter.

• Supports effective, efficient study and review. Includes many proven pedagogical features, including Key Facts to Remember and Chapter Highlights reviews.

• Helps students gain a more visual and intuitive understanding of key concepts and skills and makes nursing plans easier to understand, especially for visual learners. Concept Maps visually delineate specific nursing plans of action.

• Helps students protect the safety of their patients, their colleagues, and themselves. Safety Alert features and Clinical Tips cover key opportunities to provide safer care.

• Gives students opportunities to practice and improve their clinical-judgment, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills. Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Reasoning in Action features are incorporated throughout the book.

• Reflects the field's focus on effective patient education, health promotion, and prevention. Health Promotion Education headings focus on important areas of health teaching with patients and families.

• Commits to acknowledging and respecting diversity and multiculturalism. Chapter 2, Family, Culture, and Complementary Health Approaches, lays the foundational concepts for students to develop cultural competence, whereas the Developing Cultural Competence feature carries the concept forward by providing insights into specific issues related to culture.

• NEW: Focuses on women with special needs. Content on selected populations is now refocused in a single chapter, Chapter 12, Pregnancy in Selected Populations, to address the distinct needs of pregnant adolescents, women over age 35, and women with physical and/or intellectual disabilities. A new Women with Special Needs feature is incorporated throughout the text.

• NEW: Highlights the need for nurses to demonstrate professional standards. Professionalism in Practice features focus on topics such as legal considerations, contemporary nursing practice issues, professional accountability, patient advocacy, and home and community care considerations.

• UPDATED: Helps nursing students master the newest and best standards of care available. Coordinates with the latest recommendations and standards of care—including recommendations from AACN Baccalaureate Essentials, Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and Healthy People 2010/2020.

Also available with MyNursingLab®

MyNursingLab is an online self-study and class preparation program designed to engage students and improve results. Its personalized learning path helps students think like nurses as they move beyond memorization to true understanding through application.

• Help students master key concepts. Nursing students have a vast amount of content to learn in a short amount of time. MyNursingLab’s Personalized Learning Path helps students identify what they already know and where they need focused remediation, supporting students in mastering those topics and concepts they found difficult.

• NEW: Improve students’ clinical reasoning. Clinical Decision-Making Cases and Content Case Studies ask students to synthesize and apply what they’ve learned to patient care scenarios and make informed decisions at key moments, improving their critical-thinking and clinical reasoning skills.

• UPDATED: Prepare students for the NCLEX-RN Exam. Each MyNursingLab course incorporates thousands of NCLEX-style questions and includes all question types. Multiple practice test banks offer extensive practice opportunities, enabling students to increase their confidence, proficiency, and pass rates. More NCLEX-style study questions and two new 60-question Practice Tests are now included in MyNursingLab.

• Monitor student progress and improve class results. The MyNursingLab gradebook enables instructors to monitor student progress, spot trends across their class, and tailor their instruction accordingly.

• Digital access anytime, anywhere with the Pearson eText. The Pearson eText in MyNursingLab gives students access to their textbook anytime, anywhere.

New text features and benefits include:

• Focuses on women with special needs. Content on selected populations is now refocused in a single chapter, Chapter 12, Pregnancy in Selected Populations, to address the distinct needs of pregnant adolescents, women over age 35, and women with physical and/or intellectual disabilities. A new Women with Special Needs feature is incorporated throughout the text.

• Highlights the need for nurses to demonstrate professional standards. Professionalism in Practice features focus on topics such as legal considerations, contemporary nursing practice issues, professional accountability, patient advocacy, and home and community care considerations.

• UPDATED: Helps nursing students master the newest and best standards of care available. Coordinates with the latest recommendations and standards of care—including recommendations from AACN Baccalaureate Essentials, Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and Healthy People 2010/2020.

Also available with MyNursingLab®

MyNursingLab is an online self-study and class preparation program designed to engage students and improve results. Its personalized learning path helps students think like nurses as they move beyond memorization to true understanding through application.

• Help students master key concepts. Nursing students have a vast amount of content to learn in a short amount of time. MyNursingLab’s Personalized Learning Path helps students identify what they already know and where they need focused remediation, supporting students in mastering those topics and concepts they found difficult.

• Improve students’ clinical reasoning. Clinical Decision-Making Cases and Content Case Studies ask students to synthesize and apply what they’ve learned to patient care scenarios and make informed decisions at key moments, improving their critical-thinking and clinical reasoning skills.

• Prepare students for the NCLEX-RN Exam. Each MyNursingLab course incorporates thousands of NCLEX-style questions and includes all question types. Multiple practice test banks offer extensive practice opportunities, enabling students to increase their confidence, proficiency, and pass rates. More NCLEX-style study questions and two new 60-question Practice Tests are now included in MyNursingLab.

• Monitor student progress and improve class results. The MyNursingLab gradebook enables instructors to monitor student progress, spot trends across their class, and tailor their instruction accordingly.

• Digital access anytime, anywhere with the Pearson eText. The Pearson eText in MyNursingLab gives students access to their textbook anytime, anywhere.