Maternity nursing : clinical companion /
Shannon E. Perry, Kitty Cashion ; associate editor, Kathryn Rhodes Alden.
- Maryland Heights, MO : Mosby/Elsevier, c2007.
- 691 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
21st century maternity nursing : culturally competent, family and community focused -- Assessment and health promotion -- Common concerns -- Contraception, abortion, and infertility -- Genetics, conception, and fetal development -- Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy -- Nursing care of the family during pregnancy -- Maternal and fetal nutrition -- Labor and birth processes -- Management of discomfort -- Fetal assessment during labor -- Nursing care of the family during labor and birth -- Maternal physiologic changes -- Nursing care of the family during the fourth trimester -- Transition to parenthood -- Physiologic and behavioral adaptations of the newborn -- Assessment and care of the newborn and family -- Newborn nutrition and feeding -- Assessment of high risk pregnancy -- Pregnancy at risk : preexisting conditions -- Pregnancy at risk : gestational conditions -- Labor and birth at risk -- Postpartum complications -- The newborn at risk.