Synopses & Reviews
This handy reference is written in the easy-to-understand Incredibly Easy style, with tips and encouragement from cartoon characters as the reader moves through the book. It provides a basic understanding of normal anatomy and physiology of women and neonates as well as the adaptations they make during the stages of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. The latest information on dozens of maternal-neonatal complications is presented, including addictions, multiple gestations, preeclampsia, and adolescent pregnancy. Special icons, bullets, quick-scan tables, illustrations, and flowcharts make essential information easy to find. Also included are two four-page, full-color inserts illustrating difficult-to-understand clinical concepts.
Synopsis
Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! Second Edition offers everything nurses need to know for optimal maternal-neonatal nursing care. This thoroughly updated edition includes new information on bed rest, postpartum depression, alternative therapies, substance abuse, and complex psychosocial disorders, plus a new icon highlighting evidence-based practice. The book is written in the entertaining, award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, with numerous charts and illustrations, two four-page full-color inserts, humorous cartoons, icons emphasizing key information, memory joggers, and end-of-chapter quick quizzes.
A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 250 NCLEX®-style questions, as well as concept maps and lists of disorders with their associated nursing diagnoses.
Table of Contents
Consultants and Contributors
Foreword
1: Introduction to Maternal-Neonatal Nursing
2: Conception and Fetal Development
3: Family Planning, Contraception, and Infertility
4: Physiologic and Psychosocial Adaptations to Pregnancy
5: Prenatal Care
6: High-Risk Pregnancy
7: Labor and Birth
8: Complications of Labor and Birth
9: Postpartum Care
10: Complications of the Postpartum Period
11: Neonatal Assessment and Care
12: High-Risk Neonatal Conditions
Appendices and Index:
- Laboratory Values for Pregnant and Nonpregnant Patients
- Selected Maternal Daily Dietary Allowances
- Normal Neonatal Laboratory Values
- NANDA-I Taxonomy II
- Glossary
- Selected References
- Index