Student Workbook & Resource Guide For Olds Maternal Newborn Nursing & Womens Health Across The Lifespan

A humanistic, holistic approach to thinking like a nurse
Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health: Across the Lifespan is a family-focused text that covers maternal-newborn nursing and women’s health topics with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Relatable and engaging, the text is built upon the philosophy that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes, and that family members are partners in care. The holistic approach helps readers develop their clinical-reasoning skills, and prepare to practice nursing in an ever-changing healthcare environment.

Also available with MyNursingLab®
This title is also available with MyNursingLab—an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to engage students in the Maternal/Newborn Nursing course and improve results. Its guided learning path is proven to help students think like a nurse as they move beyond memorization to true understanding through application.

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Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health: Across the Lifespan is a family-focused text that covers maternal-newborn nursing and women's health topics with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Relatable and engaging, the text is built upon the philosophy that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes, and that family members are partners in care. The holistic approach helps readers develop their clinical-reasoning skills, and prepare to practice nursing in an ever-changing healthcare environment. KEY TOPICS: Current Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing; Care of the Family in a Culturally Diverse Society; Health Promotion of Women Across the Lifespan; Women's Health: Family Planning; Women's Health: Commonly Occurring Infections; Women's Health Problems; Women's Care: Social Issues; Violence Against Women; The Reproductive System; Conception and Fetal Development; Special Reproductive Concerns: Infertility and Genetics; Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy; Antepartum 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; Intrapartum Nursing Assessment; The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care; Pharmacologic Pain Management; Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications; Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications; Birth-Related Procedures; Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth; Nursing Assessment of the Newborn; The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care; Newborn Nutrition; The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth; The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors; Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment; The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care; Home Care of the Postpartum Family; Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family; The Postpartum Family at Risk. MARKET: This title is intended for courses in maternal-child nursing, care of women and children, and women's health, for both 4-year BSN-level courses and selected ADN-level (2-year) programs.