Contemporary maternal-newborn nursing care /
Patricia W. Ladewig, Marcia L. London, Michele R. Davidson.
- 6th ed.
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006.
- xxv, 974 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contemporary maternal-newborn care -- Culture and the childbearing family -- Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- Conception and fetal development -- Health promotion for women -- Common gynecologic problems -- Families with special reproductive concerns -- Preparation for parenthood -- Physical and psychologic changes of pregnancy -- Antepartal nursing assessment -- The expectant family: needs and care -- Adolescent pregnancy -- Maternal nutrition -- Pregnancy at risk: pregestational problems -- Pregnancy at risk: gestational onset -- Assessment of fetal well-being -- Processes and stages of labor and birth -- Intrapartal nursing assessment -- The family in childbirth: needs and care -- Pain management during birth -- Childbirth at risk -- Birth-related procedures -- The physiologic responses of the newborn to birth -- Nursing assessment of the newborn -- Normal newborn: needs and care -- Newborn nutrition -- The newborn at risk: conditions present at birth -- The newborn at risk: birth-related stressors -- Postpartal adaptation and nursing assessment -- The postpartal family: needs and care -- Home care of the postpartal family -- The postpartal family at risk.
System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows 98 or newer; Macintosh 9.X; OSX.