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NEW EDITION!
Maternity Nursing: An Introductory Text, 10th Edition
Gloria Leifer, MA, RN
October 2007 | Approx. 496 pp., 237 illus.
ISBN: 978-1-4160-4870-1

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Providing the right depth and breadth of content for today's LPN/LVN students, this market-leading text features a clear, straightforward writing style that makes it easy for students to master essential maternity nursing concepts and skills. Logically organized along a continuum from conception to the newborn and health-to-illness, this text is known for emphasizing disease prevention, early recognition, antepartum care, and the family.
   
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Unit One: Social and Family Dynamics

  1. Contemporary Maternity Care, Family, and Cultural Considerations
  2. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

Unit Two: Development of the Fetus

  1. Fetal Development

Unit Three: Pregnancy

  1. Physiologic and Psychologic Changes During Pregnancy
  2. Health Care and Fetal Assessment During Pregnancy

Unit Four: Labor and Birth

  1. Process of Normal Labor
  2. Nursing Care During Labor
  3. Management of Pain During Labor

Unit Five: The Newborn

  1. Physiologic Adaptation of the Newborn to Birth
  2. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
  3. Nursing Care of the Newborn
  4. Newborn Feeding

Unit Six: Postpartum Assessment

  1. Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care

Unit Seven: Complications of Childbearing

  1. Health Problems Complicating Pregnancy
  2. Complications of Labor and Birth pdf
  3. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Associated with Gestational Age and Development
  4. The Newborn at Risk: Acquired and Congenital Conditions
  5. Postpartum Complications
  6. Nursing Care in the Community

Unit Eight: Other Reproductive Issues

  1. Family Planning and Infertility
  2. Adolescent Childbearing
  3. Women's Health Issues
  4. Complementary and Alternative Therapies

Appendixes
Appendix A-1: Standard Precautions
Appendix A-2: Sequence of Donning and Removing PPE
Appendix B: JCAHO List of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols
Appendix C: Common Abbreviations in Maternity/Pediatrics
Appendix D: Common Spanish Phrases
Appendix E: Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms
Appendix F: NANDA Nursing Diagnosis
Appendix G: Conversion Tables
Appendix H: Selected Maternal-Newborn Lab Values
Appendix I: Transfer of Drugs into Breast Milk

Contents subject to change upon publication.


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