| Description |
xxi, 861 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
21st century maternity nursing : culturally competent, family and community focused -- Assessment and health promotion -- Common concerns -- Contraception, abortion, and infertility -- Genetics, conception, and fetal development -- Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy -- Nursing care of the family during pregnancy -- Maternal and fetal nutrition -- Labor and birth processes -- Management of discomfort -- Fetal assessment during labor -- Nursing care of the family during labor and birth -- Maternal physiologic changes -- Nursing care of the family during the fourth trimester -- Transition to parenthood -- Physiologic and behavioral adaptations of the newborn -- Assessment and care of the newborn and family -- Newborn nutrition and feeding -- Assessment of high risk pregnancy -- Pregnancy at risk : preexisting conditions -- Pregnancy at risk : gestational conditions -- Labor and birth at risk -- Postpartum complications -- The newborn at risk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Maternity nursing.
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Pediatric nursing.
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Maternal-Child Nursing -- methods.
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Obstetric Nursing -- methods.
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| Author |
Lowdermilk, Deitra Leonard.
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Perry, Shannon E.
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Cashion, Kitty.
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| LC no. |
2009043813 |
| ISBN |
9780323066617 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0323066615 hardcover alkaline paper |
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