Study Guide for Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women’s Health Nursingg

Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 7th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. With easy-to-understand language, this updated text uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making. This edition reflects the latest QSEN competencies, and the accompanying Evolve website includes review questions to prepare students for the NCLEX® exam! PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR NURSING CARE OF THE CHILDBEARING FAMILIES 1. Maternity and Women's Health Care Today 2. Social, Ethical and Legal Issues 3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology 4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing PART II: THE FAMILY BEFORE BIRTH 5. Conception and Prenatal Development 6. Maternal Adaptations to Pregnancy 7. Antepartum Assessment, Care and Education 8. Nutrition for Childbearing 9. Assessing the Fetus: Prenatal Screening and Diagnostic Testing and Antepartum Fetal Testing 10. Complications of Pregnancy 11. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs PART III: THE FAMILY DURING BIRTH 12. Processes of Birth 13. Pain management during Childbirth 14. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance 15. Nursing Care During Labor and Birth 16. Intrapartum Complications PART IV: THE FAMILY FOLLOWING BIRTH 17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care 18. Postpartum Maternal Complications 19. Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation 20. Assessment of the Normal Newborn 21. Care of the Normal Newborn 22. Infant Feeding 23. High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development 24. High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions PART VI: WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE 25. Family Planning 26. Infertility 27. Women's Health Answers to Selected Questions Help your students learn and master maternal-newborn and women’s health nursing. Designed to accompany Murray's Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 7th Edition, this workbook study guide gives students an in-depth understanding of the material from each chapter in the text. Learning activities and case studies encourage critical thought, and simulated patient situations give students practice applying what they’ve learned to the NCLEX® exam and clinical practice.