Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 12th edition

Published by Pearson (April 18, 2024) © 2025

  • Michele C. Davidson George Mason University
  • Marcia London Beth-El College of Nursing and Sciences
  • Patricia Ladewig
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Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan takes a humanistic approach to maternal-newborn care and women's health. Relatable and engaging, it acknowledges the central role of nurses in all aspects of childbearing. The authors promote holistic, evidence-based care grounded in patient-family partnerships. They'll help you build the clinical reasoning skills you need to effectively work with patients and their families and to care for patients in an ever-changing health care system.

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING

  1. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
  2. Families, Cultures, and Complementary Therapies

PART II: WOMEN'S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

  1. Health Promotion
  2. Family Planning
  3. Commonly Occurring Infections
  4. Women's Health Problems
  5. Social Issues and Violence Affecting Women

PART III: HUMAN REPRODUCTION

  1. Reproductive Physiology, Conception, and Fetal Development
  2. Reproductive Genetics

PART IV: PREGNANCY

  1. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
  2. Antepartum Nursing Assessment
  3. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
  4. Maternal Nutrition
  5. Pregnancy in Selected Populations
  6. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
  7. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
  8. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset

PART V: LABOR AND BIRTH

  1. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
  2. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
  3. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
  4. Pharmacologic Pain Management
  5. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Onset Complications
  6. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
  7. Birth-Related Procedures

PART VI: THE NEWBORN

  1. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
  2. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
  3. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
  4. Newborn Nutrition
  5. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
  6. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors
  7. Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
  8. The Postpartum Family: Early Needs and Home Care
  9. The Postpartum Family at Risk

APPENDICES

  1. Common Abbreviations in Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing
  2. Conversions and Equivalents

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