| Description |
xxiii, 453 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Contemporary maternity care, family, and cultural considerations -- 2. Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- 3. Fetal development -- 4. Physiologic and psychologic changes during pregnancy -- 5. Health care during pregnancy -- 6. Assessment of fetal health -- 7. Process of normal labor -- 8. Nursing care during labor and pain management -- 9. Physiologic adaptation of the newborn to birth -- 10. Nursing assessment of the newborn -- 11. Nursing care of the newborn -- 12. Newborn feeding -- 13. Postpartum assessment and nursing care -- 14. Health problems complicating pregnancy -- 15. Complications of labor and birth -- 16. The newborn at risk : conditions associated with gestational age and development -- 17. The newborn at risk : acquired and congenital conditions -- 18. Postpartum complications -- 19. Nursing care in the community -- 20. Family planning and infertility -- 21. Adolescent childbearing and parenting -- 22. Women's health issues -- 23. Complementary and alternative therapies -- App. A. Guidelines for isolation precautions in hospitals (standard precautions) and expanded precautions -- App. B. NANDA nursing diagnoses -- App. C. Conversion tables -- App. D. Selected maternal/newborn laboratory values -- App. E. Transfer of selected drugs and other chemicals into breast milk -- App. F. Spanish-English pronunciation words and phrases to assist nurses in maternal/newborn care -- App. G. Common abbreviations in maternal/newborn and women's health nursing -- App. H. JCAHO lists of dangerous abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols |
| Summary |
"Designed to provide the in-depth, basic knowledge necessary to deliver competent, culturally sensitive, family-centered nursing care, the ninth edition of Maternity Nursing: An Introductory Text has been revised and updated throughout to reflect the rapidly changing world of maternal-newborn health care in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Maternity nursing / Arlene Buroughs, Gloria Leifer. 8th ed. c2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Maternity nursing.
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Maternal-Child Nursing.
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| Author |
Burroughs, Arlene.
Maternity nursing
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| LC no. |
2004058548 |
| ISBN |
0721604781 |
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