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

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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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

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.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Book of Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans by Carol J. Green

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The Book of Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans by Carol J. Green

The Book of Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans by Carol J. Green Overview

Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans, Second Edition teaches students and professional nurses how to assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate care for normal and abnormal pregnancy, including delivery and recovery for both the mother and baby. This new edition contains more than 65 of the most common and high-risk care plans for maternal and newborn nursing care using the nursing process approach. Organized according to clinical condition, Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans, Second Edition provides practical components for each care plan incorporating: Key nursing activities; Etiologies and risk factors; Signs and symptoms; Diagnostic studies; Medical management; Collaborative problems; Individualized care plans complete with the Nursing Interventions; Classification (NIC)

Monday, December 19, 2011

Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care, 7th Edition by Patricia W. Ladewig, Marcia L. London, Michele Davidson

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Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care, 7th Edition by Patricia W. Ladewig, Marcia L. London, Michele Davidson

Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care, 7th Edition Overview

This is an essential book for the shorter courses in maternity nursing, e.g., 4-8 weeks long or as a refresher for professionals. Features in this book include: Women's Health and Reproductive Issues; Conception and Development; Pregnancy--Normal and High Risk; Labor--Normal and High Risk; Birth--Normal and High Risk; Postpartum Care--Normal and High Risk; Newborn Care--Normal and High Risk. Nursing students and professionals.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Workbook for Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Marcia L. London, Patricia W. Ladewig, Michele Davidson

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Workbook for Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Marcia L. London, Patricia W. Ladewig, Michele Davidson

Workbook for Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Overview

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 theme emphasized in this edition are the many facets of maternal-newborn nursing. This thread is subtly woven throughout the book.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Lippincott's Review Series: Maternal-Newborn Nursing (The Idea Study Aid) by Barbara R. Stright

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Lippincott's Review Series: Maternal-Newborn Nursing (The Idea Study Aid)

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An outline-format, inexpensive, paperback review book for undergraduate nursing students that can be used for course or subject review or NCLEX preparation. Contains NCLEX-style review questions in each chapter, a comprehensive exam, and additional questions on a back-of-book CD-ROM. This edition includes new NCLEX-style innovative item questions.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Study Guide for Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing by Sharon Smith Murray MSN RN C, Emily Slone McKinney MSN RN C

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Study Guide for Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing

Study Guide for Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing Overview

Master content from the textbook with this helpful study tool! Designed to accompany Murray's Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 5th Edition, this workbook will assist students in understanding and applying material from each chapter in the text.

Davis's Success Series 'Maternal and Newborn Success' A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking by Margot Desevo

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Davis's Success Series 'Maternal and Newborn Success' A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking

Davis's Success Series 'Maternal and Newborn Success' A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking Overview

Perfect for course review now...and NCLEX prep later!1,263 questions address all of maternal/newborn nursing class content. 1,013 questions in text are followed by a comprehensive 100-question test. And as a bonus, there s a CD-ROM with two final exams of 75 questions each. The questions reflect the latest NCLX-RN test plan, with a focus on content related to physiological integrity. All questions in the final exam and on the CD include rationales for both correct and incorrect answers.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Clinical Handbook for Maternal Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Care, 7th Edition by Sally B. Olds, Marcia L. London, Patricia A. Ladewig, Michele R. Davidson

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Clinical Handbook for Maternal Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Care, 7th Edition

Clinical Handbook for Maternal Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Care, 7th Edition Overview

Nurses working with childbearing families face a variety new challenges, including shortened lengths of hospital stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health-care systems. This pocket guide is an ideal resource providing vital information to guide maternal-newborn nurses from pregnancy to the postpartum and newborn stages. It features drug guides, procedures, and common abbreviations for terminology. For student nurses gaining clinical experience.

Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan by Michele Davidson, Marcia L. London, Patricia W. Ladewig

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Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan

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This family-focused text that provides comprehensive coverage of maternal-newborn nursing and women’s health with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Accurate, readable, personal, and engaging, OLDS' MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING & WOMEN'S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN, 9/e reflects a deep understanding of pregnancy and birth as normal life processes, and of family members as partners in care. This edition includes a deeper discussion of childbirth at risk; four new nursing care plans; updated coverage of contraception, complementary/alternative therapies, and much more. New teaching features include Professionalism in Practice and Health Promotion Education boxes, Clinical Judgment case studies, and Critical Thinking questions. This edition also aligns more closely with AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.

Prentice Hall Nursing: Maternal-Newborn Nursing Reviews & Rationals, 2nd Edition by Mary Ann Hogan, Rita Glazebrook, Vera Brancato, Jean Rodgers

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Prentice Hall Nursing: Maternal-Newborn Nursing Reviews & Rationals, 2nd Edition by Mary Ann Hogan, Rita Glazebrook, Vera Brancato, Jean Rodgers

Prentice Hall Nursing: Maternal-Newborn Nursing Reviews & Rationals, 2nd Edition by Mary Ann Hogan, Rita Glazebrook, Vera Brancato, Jean Rodgers Overview

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of maternal-newborn nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post-tests with rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts. Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series includes a comprehensive CD-ROM, to provide additional review. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering reproduction, fetal development, nursing care during the normal and complicated prenatal, intrapartal, and postpartal periods, nursing care of the newborn, and much more. For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.  

The Critical Components of Nursing Care: Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Chapman, Roberta Durham

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The Critical Components of Nursing Care: Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Chapman, Roberta Durham

The Critical Components of Nursing Care: Maternal-Newborn Nursing by Chapman, Roberta Durham Overview

A better way to learn maternal and newborn nursing! This unique multi-media package presents tightly focused coverage in a highly structured book of 500 pages plus 10 hours of recorded content. All of the field s must-have information is delivered in an easy-to-grasp, visually clear and precise print design, while the digital audio files on the enclosed CD enable students to download the material to their MP3 players or listen at their computers.

BONUS Audio Book on CD-ROM with 10 hours of narrated content from the text to play on a computer or download to an MP3 player or iPod.