Contemporary maternal-newborn nursing

Maternal-newborn nursing is multi-faceted, challenging and rewarding. It provides multiple opportunities to touch lives and make a difference. In the new edition, those facets and their impact on maternal-newborn nursing is evident, while emphasizing that family members are co-particpants in care.Because of the varied and rich opportunities for nurses, the themeemphasized in this edition arethe many facets of maternal-newborn nursing. This thread is subtly woven throughout the book.

Part 1Introductory Concepts

1 Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Care

2 Culture and the Childbearing Family

3 Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

4 Conception and Fetal Development

Part 2Women's Health: The Reproductive Years

5 Health Promotion for Women

6 Common Gynecologic problems

7 Families with Special Reproductive Concerns

8 Preparation of Pregnancy

Part 3Pregnancy and Family

9 Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy

10 Antepartal Nursing Assessment

11 The Expectant Family: Needs and Care

12 Maternal Nutrition

13 Adolescent Pregnancy

14 Assessment of Fetal Well-Being

15 Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems

16 Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset

Part 4Birth and the Family

17 Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth

18 Intrapartal Nursing Assessment

19 Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care

20 Pharmacologic Management of Pain

21 Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications

22 Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications

23 Birth-Related Procedures

Part 5The Newborn

24 The Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth

25 Nursing Assessment of the Newborn

26 Normal Newborn: Needs and Care

27 Newborn Nutrition

28 The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth

29 The Newborn at Risk: Birth Related Stressors

Part 6Postpartum

30 Pospartal Adaptations and Nursing Assessment

31 The Postpartal Family: Needs and Care

32 Home Care of the Postpartal Family

33 The Postpartal Family at Risk