Friday, December 30, 2011

Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing by Shannon E. Perry RN PhD FAAN, Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk RNC PhD FAAN

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Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing by Shannon E. Perry, Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk

Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing by Shannon E. Perry, Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk Overview

Provide competent and sensitive maternal and newborn nursing care with Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing, 2nd Edition! Ideal for quick reference in the clinical setting, this book offers the information you need on topics such as pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care, and care of the newborn, including potential complications for each. Expert authors Dr. Shannon E. Perry, Kitty Cashion, Dr. Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, and Kathryn R. Alden stress the importance of safe nursing practice as outlined in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative.
  • Teaching for Self-Management boxes offer a guide to communicating follow-up care to patients and their families.
  • Signs of Potential Complications boxes help you recognize the signs and symptoms of complications and provide immediate interventions.
  • Procedure boxes offer easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions for maternity skills and procedures.
  • Emergency boxes may be used for quick reference in critical situations.
  • Nursing Alerts highlight critical information that must be considered when providing care.
  • Medication Guides in an appendix provide a key reference for common drugs and their interactions.
  • Updated content provides the most current practice guidelines, including expanded information on obesity, the late preterm infant, and fetal heart rate pattern identification.
  • Safety Alerts highlight developing competencies related to safe nursing practice in conjunction with the QSEN initiative on quality and safety in nursing care.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans by Karla L. Luxner

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Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans by Karla L. Luxner

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Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans, 2nd edition, provides detailed information on caring for clients during pregnancy, labor and delivery, the postpartum period, and the newborn/infant period. All the information needed to develop specific and effective nursing care plans for clients in the maternal and newborn periods is included. Each care plan presents information to guide users in developing comprehensive individualized nursing care plans based on solid scientific understanding of the physiological, psychological, and social events surrounding childbirth. Care plans solicit specific client data and prompt the user to individualize the interventions, consider cultural relevance, and evaluate the client's individual response.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Essentials of Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Patricia W. Ladewig, Marcia L. London, Sally B. Olds

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Essentials of Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Patricia W. Ladewig, Marcia L. London, Sally B. Olds Overview

This text offers updated and essential coverage of the increasingly complex challenges faced by maternal-newborn nursing students. This third edition offers new features including three new "Critical Pathways" (on the intrapartal patient, newborn and postpartal patient) that give a time-sequenced guide of anticipated care for healthy patients. "What would you do?" boxes are designed to encourage critical thinking.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Review The Book Nursetest: Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Harriett W. Ferguson, Shelton M. Hisley

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Nursetest: Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Harriett W. Ferguson, Shelton M. Hisley

Nursetest: Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Harriett W. Ferguson, Shelton M. Hisley Overview

ursing students find a thoroughly updated review with current care guidelines as well as study and test-taking tips -- a popular component of every Nurse Test book. Contents include anatomy and physiology, family planning, antepartum period, intrapartum period, postpartum period, neonatal care, a comprehensive examination, selected references, and an index

Monday, December 26, 2011

Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing by Susan Scott Ricci ARNP MSN M.Ed.

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Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing by Susan Scott Overview

The new Second Edition of Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing covers a broad scope of topics emphasizing common issues and maternity-specific information. With a unique concept-based approach and nursing process focus, this book helps students go from concept to application by building on previously mastered knowledge. This edition has an updated focus on evidence-based practice and increased emphasis on nursing management, focusing on assessment and interventions.

The outstanding artwork includes nearly 500 photos and diagrams that clearly illustrate concepts and clinical conditions. Healthy People 2010 boxes identify maternity-specific health trends and nursing implications for achieving these objectives. Each chapter opens with a case study, which unfolds throughout the chapter to inspire critical thinking. The book includes nursing care plans that highlight each step of the nursing process, and incorporates teaching guidelines to prepare students to educate families. Watch and Learn icons direct students to free video clips highlighting growth and development, communication, and nursing care.

A bound-in CD-ROM and a companion Website include video clips and NCLEX®-style review questions.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Quick Look Nursing: Maternal And Newborn Health by Janet Arenson

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Quick Look Nursing: Maternal And Newborn Health by Janet Arenson

Quick Look Nursing: Maternal And Newborn Health by Janet Arenson Overview

Intended as a quick reference for nurses and nursing students, this text offers guidance in identifying essential content for maternity nursing practice. Quick Look Nursing: Maternal-Newborn Nursing identifies the most important facts and summarizes the most current information involved in maternal and newborn nursing.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Guidelines for Individualizing Care : Maternal/Newborn Plans of Care by Marilynn Doenges, Mary Moorhouse

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Guidelines for Individualizing Care : Maternal/Newborn Plans of Care by Marilynn Doenges, Mary Moorhouse

Guidelines for Individualizing Care : Maternal/Newborn Plans of Care Overview

Divided into four sections prenatal, intrapartal, maternal, postpartal, and newborn care this book includes 50 plans of care. Each plan includes a sample client assessment database, nursing priorities, potential nursing diagnoses with "May be related to" and "Possibly evidenced by" statements, desired outcomes/evaluation criteria, interventions, and rationales for each intervention. The interventions are separated into independent and collaborative actions A specific assessment tool for data collection is included at the beginning of each section.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care by Mary Ann Towle

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Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care by Mary Ann Towle Overview

The nature of nursing embodies the ever-changing rewards and challenges for today’s practical and vocational nursing students. Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care provides a foundation for safe, effective nursing care of the growing child within the community. Exciting features in this book are:   Health Promotion Issues that explore current issues in healthcare and provide management solutions;  Extensive review for NCLEX-PN® exam preparation; and Nursing care features such as priorities in nursing care, nursing care checklists, clinical alerts, and nursing process care plans.  Also included with the book is a CD-ROM with an audio glossary, animations and videos, and NCLEX-PN style review questions!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing E-Book, Kindle Ediotion by Susan Mattson RNC-OB CTN PhD FAAN, Judy E. Smith PhD RNC-WHNP

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Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing E-Book by Susan Mattson, Judy E. Smith Overview

Using an outcomes-based, contemporary approach, AWHONN's Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 4th Edition provides essential knowledge for care through every stage of pregnancy and childbirth. It is also the definitive resource in preparing for the AWHONN certification examination. A concise, outline format covers concepts of reproduction, fetal development, normal pregnancy, the intrapartum and postpartum periods, the normal newborn, complications in the mother and the newborn, and ethical and legal issues. Edited by two well-respected authors, Susan Mattson, RNC, CTN, PhD, FAAN, and Judy Smith, PhD, RNP-C, this is the only book that includes AWHONN-endorsed content for the practice of maternal-newborn nursing!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Incredibly Easy! Series: Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made by Springhouse

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Incredibly Easy! Series: Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made by Springhouse

Incredibly Easy! Series: Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made by Springhouse Overview

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.