Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan 9th Edition 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.
Key Features
- Comprehensive coverage - including contemporary maternal-newborn nursing challenges; women’s health; human reproduction; pregnancy; birth; the newborn and postpartum families.
- Step-by-Step Procedures - walking students through common tasks that will be expected of them in clinical situations, with preparation steps, rationales, required equipment and supplies, and step-by-step procedures.
- “Through the Eyes of a Nurse” features - shows how a nurse can establish a connection with a couple throughout the pregnancy and after the birth of their baby, via integrated coverage in the text and online video.
- Strong focus on patient and family teaching - including complete Patient Teaching Plans and teaching tools foruse in educating patients and families about self-care and special health care issues.
- Community-Based Nursing Care coverage - supporting the trend toward increased delivery of nursing care in community-based setting.
- Developing Cultural Competence boxes - fostering students’ awareness of cultural factors that influence a family’s expectations of and responses to health care providers, and their experiences with the health care system.
- Drug Guides - focus on correctly administering selected medications commonly used in maternal-newborn nursing, and in evaluating the effects of those medications.
- Key terms lists - at the front of each chapter, with page numbers referencing where each term first appears; first references are in bold type.
- Extensive online resources, cross-referenced throughout the text - including videos, activities, and much more.
- Focus Your Study summaries - outlining the main points of each chapter.
New to this edition
- Revised and Updated! Extensively updated coverage throughout - including new women’s health information on contraception, commonly occurring infections, health promotion, menopause, gynecologic cancers, polycystic ovarian syndrome and pelvic relaxation, genetics/genomics, breast cancer during pregnancy, and much more.
- New! Health Promotion Education features - focusing on the teaching that nurses do at all stages of pregnancy and the childbearing process, including crucial postpartum teaching done before and immediately after discharge.
- New! Professionalism in Practice features - focusing on topics such as legal and ethical considerations, contemporary nursing practice issues, professional accountability, patient advocacy, and home and community care considerations.
- Improved! Research Evidence in Practice boxes - relating research evidence to women’s health and maternal-newborn nursing, discussing clinical situations and typical nursing practice, identifying current research that supports or fails to support these practices, and encouraging students to think more critically.
- New! Clinical Judgment case studies and Critical Thinking questions - presenting brief scenarios and requiring students to determine the appropriate responses.
- Updated! Learning Outcomes - now reflect the revised Bloom’s taxonomy.
- New! Photos in chapter-opening vignettes - adding more realism and visual interest.
- New! Nearly 100 new lifelike obstetric illustrations - clarifying body systems and behavior.
- Improved! Special attention to AACN competencies - identified in the AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
- New! New chapter on Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications - providing a more extended discussion of the impact of pregestational physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions.
- New! Four new nursing plans - covering Epidural Anesthesia, Hemorrhage in the Third Trimester and at Birth, A Woman With Engorgement, and Induction of Labor.
- New! Caring for women and mothers with intellectual disabilities - added in three chapters.
- Updated! Revised coverage of complementary and alternative therapies - in a separate chapter as well as in intra-chapter CAM content.
- New! Coverage of maternal death - incorporated in a full chapter on Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family.
Contents
UNIT 1: Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
- 1. Current Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing
- 2. Care of the Family in a Culturally Diverse Society
- 3. Complementary and Alternative Therapies
UNIT 2: Women’s Health
- 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. Women's Care: Social Issues
- 9. Violence Against Women
UNIT 3: Human Reproduction
- 10. The Reproductive System
- 11. Conception and Fetal Development
- 12. Special Reproductive Concerns: Infertility and Genetics
UNIT 4: Pregnancy
- 13. Preparation for Parenthood
- 14. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
- 15. Antepartum Nursing Assessment
- 16. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
- 17. Adolescent Pregnancy
- 18. Maternal Nutrition
- 19. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
- 20. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset
- 21. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
UNIT 5: Birth
- 22. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
- 23. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
- 24. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
- 25. Pain Management During Labor
- 26. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications
- 27. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
- 28. Birth-Related Procedures
UNIT 6: The Newborn
- 29. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
- 30. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
- 31. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
- 32. Newborn Nutrition
- 33. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
- 34. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors
UNIT 7: Postpartum
- 35. Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
- 36. The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care
- 37. Home Care of the Postpartum Family
- 38. Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family
- 39. The Postpartum Family at Risk
APPENDICES
- A. Common Abbreviations in Maternal-Newborn and Women’s Health Nursing
- B. Conversions and Equivalents
- C. Spanish Translations of English Phrases
- D. Guidelines for Working with Deaf Clients and Interpreters
- E. Sign Language for Healthcare Professionals
- F. Actions and Effects of Selected Drugs During Breastfeeding
GLOSSARY
INDEX
Product Details
- Hardcover: 1272 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 9 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132109077
- ISBN-13: 978-0132109079
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 1.7 inches
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