MATERNAL NEWBORN NURSING, 5TH EDITION

Course overview

This course will prepare the nurse for the general care of the normal childbearing woman and her family, from preconception care to the woman¿s initial diagnosis of pregnancy through the antepartum period, labor, delivery, and immediate postpartum recovery, to her discharge from the birthing center or hospital and her outpatient follow-up and transition to well-woman care following birth. Care of the low-risk newborn throughout the transition stage until discharge home will also be highlighted. Although emphasis is given to normal physiological changes occurring during pregnancy and childbirth, abnormal changes are briefly discussed to alert the reader to the more common obstetrical and newborn complications. This book will provide nurses who work in a variety of settings with basic, practical, and current information to enable them to be more effective and confident in caring for pregnant women, new mothers, and babies. The text can be used as a quick reference for practicing nurses and a study guide for nurses who desire to work in this specialty.