Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing and Women's Health Across the Lifespan: Pearson New International Edition

**For courses in maternal-child nursing, care of women and children, and women’s health, for both 4-year BSN-level courses and selected ADN-level (2-year) programs.** This is a 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, it 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 features include Professionalism in Practice and Health Promotion Education boxes, Clinical Judgment case studies, and Critical Thinking questions. This edition also pays special attention to aligning with the AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. Cover Table of Contents 1. Glossary 2. Current Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing 3. Care of the Family in a Culturally Diverse Society 4. Health Promotion of Women Across the Lifespan 5. Women's Health: Family Planning 6. Women's Health: Commonly Occurring Infections 7. Women's Health Problems 8. Complementary and Alternative Therapies 9. Women's Care: Social Issues 10. Violence Against Women 11. The Reproductive System 12. Conception and Fetal Development 13. Special Reproductive Concerns: Infertility and Genetics 14. Preparation for Parenthood 15. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy 16. Antepartum Nursing Assessment 17. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care 18. Adolescent Pregnancy 19. Maternal Nutrition 20. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems 21. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset 22. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being 23. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth 24. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment 25. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care 26. Pain Management During Labor 27. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications 28. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications 29. Birth-Related Procedures 30. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth 31. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn 32. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care 33. Newborn Nutrition 34. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth 35. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors 36. Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment 37. The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care 38. Home Care of the Postpartum Family 39. Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family 40. The Postpartum Family at Risk 41. Appendix: Common Abbreviations in Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing 42. Appendix: Guidelines for Working with Deaf Patients and Interpreters 43. Appendix: Sign Language for Health Care Professionals 44. Maternal-Fetal Development Chart Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z