Littleton: Maternity Nursing Care 2nd Edition with CD

Maternity Nursing Care 2nd Edition delivers all of the core components of obstetrical nursing, along with in-depth study features to help care givers develop better decision-making skills and provide safe nursing care. Starting with women's health issues and pregnancy care, the chapters progress through labor and childbirth, postpartum care, and newborn development, addressing the nursing considerations for both normal and high-risk scenarios where appropriate.

Written in a student-friendly voice from a nursing perspective, Maternity Nursing Care 2nd Edition emphasizes overall patient care as opposed to medical treatment alone, and illustrates the critical importance of fostering the nurse-patient relationship.

Maternity Nursing Care 2nd Edition is also bound with a helpful StudyWARE™ Online, which includes case studies, NCLEX-style review questions, videos, activities, a glossary, and many other features that enhance competency in Obstetrical Nursing care.

Key Features

• Outstanding Readability: Reviewers agree that MATERNITY NURSING CARE, 2nd Edition delivers the highest quality writing and an easy-to-read format, making it an ideal resource for anyone interested in the obstetrical nursing field.
• Critical Thinking Features: Every chapter contains 'Reflections' and 'Critical Thinking' sections with detailed case scenarios across different care settings and involving various nursing roles, giving readers multiple opportunities to hone collaboration, decision-making, and analytical skills.
• Care Plan Practice: In-text Nursing Process Plans let readers apply theories to real-life events, while end-of-chapter Nursing Care Plans allow them to develop their own effective, patient-specific care plans according to chapter material.
• Realistic Photo Stories: These full-color photos depict procedures and nursing care, emphasizing clinical excellence and the nurse-patient relationship, and help readers imagine themselves in maternity nursing roles.
• Integrated Study Tools: Web activities suggested at the end of each chapter provide optional learning opportunities, such as practice problems and research, while the StudyWare Online Companion CD is loaded with interactive activities and exercises designed to help readers prepare for exams.

New to this edition

• Current Health Care Reform Content: Added material on the newly enacted Health Care Reforms and their effects on nursing care keep readers abreast of sweeping changes across the health care landscape.
• All-New Coverage: New chapters cover fetal assessment, labor processes, and pain management during labor and delivery, while also addressing the latest standards and guidelines for fetal monitoring.
• New Boxed Features: Added features, such as 'Cultural Negotiation' boxes and 'Seeking Evidence-Based Practice' boxes, highlight the importance of understanding the influence of culture on a patient's health beliefs and practices and how to implement new strategies for research-based care into your professional practice.
• Updated Standards: Keeping pace with changes in health care, all chapters contain the most recent standards, guidelines, and evidence for nursing practice, along with ethical and legal considerations to consider during patient care.
• Revised Study Features: More end-of-chapter questions, new NCLEX-style questions, solutions to short-answer questions, new critical thinking questions, concept maps, and new Clinical Pathways feature in each chapter lead readers to the information they need to prepare for a career in obstetrical nursing today.

Contents 

• 1. Maternity Nursing in the Contemporary Health Care System.
• 2. Theoretical Perspectives on the Childbearing Family.
• 3. Complementary and Alternative Therapy.
• 4. Ethics, Laws, and Standards of Care.
• 5. Promoting Women's' Health.
• 6. Health Care Issues and Common Concerns.
• 7. Reproduction, Fertility, Infertility, and Family Planning.
• 8. Genetics and Genetic Counseling.
• 9. Normal Pregnancy.
• 10. Nursing Care of the Pregnant Woman.
• 11. Management and Nursing Care of High-Risk Clients.
• 12. Fetal Development.
• 13. Fetal Assessment.
• 14. Processes of Labor.
• 15. Nursing Care of the Intrapartal Family.
• 16. High-Risk Births and Obstetrical Emergencies.
• 17. Pain Management During Labor and Delivery.
• 18. Nursing Care of the Postpartum Family.
• 19. Complications of Postpartum and Neonatal Loss.
• 20. Lactation and Newborn Nutrition.
• 21. Transition to Extrauterine Life.
• 22. Care of the Normal Newborn.
• 23. Care of Newborns at Risk Due to Low Birthweight and Prematurity.
• 24. Care of the Newborn with Chronic and Acquired Conditions.

About the Authors

• Lynna Littleton-Gibbs is the Director of Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program. She is also a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and a retired Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas.
• Joan Engebretson is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas. She is also the Head of the Division of Women and Childbearing Families and Nursing for Target Populations.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1024 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 2 edition (January 6, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1111543119
• ISBN-13: 978-1111543112
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches

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Leifer: Maternity Nursing: An Introductory Text 11th Edition

Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text provides essential content for a solid foundation in maternity nursing. Its easy-to-follow body system approach progresses along a continuum from conception to adulthood, emphasizing prevention, early recognition, antepartum care, and the family. With its easy-to-read, clear writing style, it provides exactly the right depth and breadth of content for LPN/LVNs.

Key Features 

• Chronological organization of content follows a sequence from family issues, fetal development, pregnancy, labor, birth, and care of the newborn, to postpartum issues with special social, familial, and cultural considerations.
• Organization of concepts in each chapter by simple to complex and from health to illness makes it easier to locate and understand the material.
• Complete, concise coverage includes a table of physiologic and psychosocial changes throughout the pregnancy, unique content on CPR for the pregnant patient and infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy, a pictorial story of a vaginal birth, cultural considerations of pregnancy and maternal care, and nursing responses to loss, death, and grief.
• UNIQUE! A FREE Study Guide in the back of the book reinforces understanding with multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, scenario-based clinical situation questions, and online activities.
• Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions help in understanding how a care plan is developed, how to evaluate care of a patient, and how to apply your knowledge to clinical scenarios.
• Health Promotion boxes and content focus on family-centered care, health promotion, illness prevention, and women's health issues.
• Clinical Pathways use an interdisciplinary, collaborative-care approach in tracking interventions along a timeline from assessment to discharge and follow up.
• Online resources for further research and study are included at the end of each chapter.
• UNIQUE! LPN Threads make learning easier, featuring a 10th-grade reading level, key terms with phonetic pronunciations and text page references, chapter objectives, special features boxes, and full-color art, photographs, and design.

New to this edition

• Coverage of the latest advances in nursing care includes fetal heart rate monitoring during labor and delivery and revised diabetes classifications.
• Get Ready for the NCLEX^® Examination! section at the end of each chapter includes key points, review questions, and critical thinking questions for individual, small group, or classroom review.
• Safety Alert! boxes highlight 2011 Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals, with special consideration for serious and potentially fatal medication errors.
• Easily recognizable icons for standard steps are included in each skill (e.g., hand hygiene).
• UNIQUE! Icons in page margins point to relevant animations and video clips on the companion Evolve website.

Contents

Unit One: Social and Family Dynamics

• 1. Contemporary Maternity Care, Family, and Cultural Considerations
• 2. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

Unit Two: Development of the Fetus

• 3. Fetal Development

Unit Three: Pregnancy

• 4. Physiologic and Psychologic Changes During Pregnancy
• 5. Healthcare and Fetal Assessment During Pregnancy

Unit Four: Labor and Birth

• 6. Process of Normal Labor
• 7. Nursing Care During Labor
• 8. Management of Pain During Labor

Unit Five: The Newborn

• 9. Physiologic Adaptation of the Newborn to Birth
• 10. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
• 11. Nursing Care of the Newborn
• 12. Newborn Feeding

Unit Six: Postpartum Assessment

• 13. Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care

About the Author

Gloria Leifer, MA, RN, CNE, Professor, Obstetric and Pediatric Nursing, Riverside City College, Riverside, CA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 536 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 11 edition (October 3, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1437722091
• ISBN-13: 978-1437722093 

  

List Price: $51.95 

  

 

Coad: Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives 3rd Edition (Pageburst Series)

Anatomy & Physiology for Midwives 3rd edition builds on the success of the first two editions with electronic ancillaries, more accessible, woman-centred language and strengthened links with good practice. The book provides a thorough review of anatomy and physiology applicable to midwifery, from first principles through to current research, utilizing case studies for reflection. A comprehensive and well-illustrated textbook that is an essential purchase for all students of midwifery. 

Printed book plus Pageburst access. You will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst enhances learning not only by bringing world class content to your fingertips but also by letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it in a way that suits you. Pageburst frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching.

Contents 

• 1. Introduction to Physiology
• 2. The Reproductive and Urinary Systems
• 3. Endocrinology
• 4. Reproductive Cycles
• 5. Sexual Differentiation and Behaviour
• 6. Fertilisation
• 7. Overview of Human Genetics and Genetic Disorders
• 8. The Placenta
• 9. Embryo Development and Fetal Growth
• 10. Overview of Immunology
• 11. Physiological Adaptation to Pregnancy
• 12. Maternal Nutrition and Health
• 13. Physiology of Parturition
• 14. The Puerperium
• 15. The Transition to Neonatal Life
• 16. Lactation and Infant Nutrition
• Glossary
• Index

About the Authors 

• Jane Coad, EIHMS, Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition, Massey University, New Zealand; University of Surrey, UK. 
• Melvyn Dunstall, EIHMS, Lecturer/Practitioner in Midwifery, Frimley Park Hospital; Midwifery Visitor for NMC; University of Surrey, UK. 

Product Details

• Paperback: 470 pages
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 3 edition (August 8, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0702034894
• ISBN-13: 978-0702034893
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches

List Price: $98.95

Lowdermilk: Maternity and Women's Health Care 10th edition

With comprehensive coverage of maternal, newborn, and women's health nursing, Maternity & Women's Health Care, 10th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. It's the #1 maternity book in the market -- and now respected authors Dr. Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Dr, Shannon E. Perry, Kitty Cashion, and Kathryn R. Alden have improved readability and provided a more focused approach! Not only does this text emphasize childbearing issues and concerns, including care of the newborn, it addresses wellness promotion and management of common women's health problems. In describing the continuum of care, it integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, and community-based care. New to this edition is the most current information on care of the late preterm infant and the 2008 updated fetal monitoring standards from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Key Features

• A logical organization builds understanding by presenting wellness content first, then complications.
• Critical Reasoning exercises offer real-life situations in which you can develop analytical skills and apply their knowledge.
• 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.
• Medication Guide boxes provide an important reference for common drugs and their interactions.
• Cultural Considerations boxes stress the importance of considering the beliefs and health practices of patients from various cultures when providing care.
• Family content emphasizes the importance of including family in the continuum of care.
• Nursing Care Plans include specific guidelines and rationales for interventions for delivering effective nursing care.
• Community Activity exercises introduce activities and nursing care in a variety of local settings.
• Student resources on the companion Evolve website include assessment and childbirth videos, animations, case studies, critical thinking exercises with answers, nursing skills, anatomy reviews, a care plan constructor, review questions, an audio glossary, and more. 

New to this edition

• Content updates provide the most current practice guidelines, including expanded information on the late preterm infant and fetal heart rate pattern identification.
• New content on obesity provides the latest information on this increasingly common condition.
• Safety Alerts help in developing competencies related to safe nursing practice in conjunction with the QSEN initiative on quality and safety in nursing care.
• Updated Evidence-Based Practice boxes highlight current research to improve patient outcomes.
• Updated NICHD fetal monitoring standards provide guidelines reflecting current practice, as recommended by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
• Video clips on the companion Evolve website reinforce key skills performed in the maternity setting.
• Audio Key Points on Evolve make it easy to review core content while on the go.
• Streamlined nursing process information is summarized in boxes, making it easier to identify information on major diseases and conditions.

Contents

Unit One: Introduction to Maternity & Women's Health Care

• 1. 21st Century Maternity and Women's Health Nursing
• 2. Community Care: The Family and Culture
• 3. Clinical Genetics NEW FOCUS!

Unit Two: Women's Health

• 4. Assessment and Health Promotion
• 5. Violence Against Women
• 6. Reproductive System Concerns
• 7. Sexually Transmitted and Other Infections
• 8. Contraception and Abortion
• 9. Infertility
• 10. Problems of the Breast
• 11. Structural Disorders and Neoplasms of the Reproductive System

Unit Three: Pregnancy

• 12. Conception and Fetal Development
• 13. Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy
• 14. Maternal and Fetal Nutrition
• 15. Nursing Care of the Family During Pregnancy 

Unit Four: Childbirth

• 16. Labor and Birth Processes
• 17. Pain Management
• 18. Fetal Assessment During Labor
• 19. Nursing Care of the Family During Labor and Birth

Unit Five: Postpartum

• 20. Postpartum Physiology
• 21. Nursing Care of the Family During the Postpartum Period
• 22. Transition to Parenthood

Unit Six: The Newborn

• 23. Physiologic and Behavioral Adaptations of the Newborn
• 24. Nursing Care of the Newborn and Family
• 25. Newborn Nutrition and Feeding

Unit Seven: Complications of Pregnancy

• 26. Assessment for Risk Factors in Pregnancy
• 27. Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
• 28. Antepartum Hemorrhagic Disorders
• 29. Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders in Pregnancy
• 30. Medical-Surgical Problems in Pregnancy
• 31. Obstetric Critical Care 
• 32. Mental Health Disorders and Substance Abuse in Pregnancy
• 33. Labor and Birth Complications
• 34. Postpartum Complications

Unit Eight: Newborn Complications

• 35. Acquired Problems of the Newborn
• 36. Hemolytic Disorders and Congenital Anomalies
• 37. Nursing Care of the High Risk Newborn
• 38. Perinatal Loss and Grief

Glossary

About the Authors

• Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC, PhD, FAAN, Clinical Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Nursing Education and Curriculum Consultant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• Shannon E. Perry, RN, CNS, PhD, FAAN, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1024 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 10 edition (2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323074294
• ISBN-13: 978-0323074292
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.9 x 1.8 inches 

 List Price: $102.00 

Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan 9th Edition

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

List Price: $107.80 
 

Schuiling: Women's Gynecologic Health 2nd edition

Women’s Gynecologic Health, Second Edition equips students and practicing clinicians with comprehensive information about women’s gynecologic health, including health promotion, maintenance and treatment. Based on the most recent research, the authors provide authoritative content written from a feminist perspective.

The Second Edition has been completely revised and updated and includes new chapters on diagnosis of pregnancy at the gynecologic visit, women’s health after bariatric surgery, gynecologic health care for sexual and gender minorities, and urinary tract infections.

Key Features Include:

• Clinical considerations specific to the different physical and psychosocial life stages of women.
• Emphasis on physiologic mechanisms in order to enhance understanding of normal and abnormal processes.
• Evidence-based content.
• Content and presentation suitable for students and practicing clinicians.

Contents

Section I INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S GYNECOLOGIC HEALTH

• Chapter 1 Women’s Health from a Feminist Perspective
• Chapter 2 Women’s Growth and Development across the Lifespan
• Chapter 3 Using Evidence to Support Clinical Practice

Section II HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND PROMOTION

• Chapter 4 Health Promotion
• Chapter 5 Gynecologic Anatomy and Physiology
• Chapter 6 Gynecologic History and Physical Examination
• Chapter 7 Diagnosis of Pregnancy at the Gynecologic Visit
• Chapter 8 Periodic Screening and Health Maintenance
• Chapter 9 Women’s Health after Bariatric Surgery
• Chapter 10 Gynecologic Health Care for Sexual and Gender Minorities
• Chapter 11 Sexuality
• Chapter 12 Contraception
• Chapter 13 Menopause
• Chapter 14 Intimate Partner Violence
• Chapter 15 Sexual Assault

Section III WOMEN’S GYNECOLOGIC HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT

• Chapter 16 Breast Conditions
• Chapter 17 Female Sexual Dysfunction
• Chapter 18 Unintended Pregnancy
• Chapter 19 Infertility
• Chapter 20 Gynecologic Infections
• Chapter 21 Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Chapter 22 Urinary Tract Infections
• Chapter 23 Urinary Incontinence
• Chapter 24 Menstrual Cycle Pain and Discomforts
• Chapter 25 Normal and Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
• Chapter 26 Hyperandrogenic Disorders
• Chapter 27 Benign Gynecologic Conditions
• Chapter 28 Gynecologic Cancers
• Chapter 29 Chronic Pelvic Pain

About the Author(s)

• Kerri D. Schuiling, PhD, CNM, WHCNP, FACNM has been an advanced practice nurse and educator for over 27 years. She holds a master's degree in Advanced Maternity Nursing from Wayne State University and a PhD in nursing and graduate certificate in Women's Studies from the University of Michigan. Kerri received her nurse practitioner education from Planned Parenthood Association of Milwaukee, WI, and her nurse-midwifery education from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She is dually certified as a WHCNP and CNM. She has presented nationally on the subject of abnormal uterine bleeding and as a member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Clinical Practice Committee assisted in the development of two clinical bulletins related to abnormal uterine bleeding. She has been an item writer for the NCC certification examination for women's health care nurse practitioners and currently is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health and the Journal of Professional Nursing. She has received numerous awards for her work including a Clinical Merit Award from the University of Michigan for outstanding clinical practice, the Kitty Ernst award from the ACNM for recognition of innovative, creative endeavors in midwifery and women's health and was recently inducted as a Fellow of the ACNM. Currently she is the Associate Dean for Nursing Education at Northern Michigan University and works with the ACNM as a senior researcher.
• Frances E. Likis, DrPH, FNP, CNM received her BS and MSN from Vanderbilt University, and Post-Master's Nurse-Midwifery and Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner Certificates from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She is certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner, Nurse-Midwife, and Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner. Her clinical experience includes family practice in community health and urgent care centers, performing sexual assault examinations, and midwifery practice in a freestanding birth center and a large obstetrics and gynecology group practice. She is currently a member of the faculty of the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She is also a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, where she is the recipient of a Caroline H. And Thomas S. Royster, Jr. Fellowship awarded for academic potential and record of achievement. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health and a reviewer for Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has authored articles in the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, The Nurse Practitioner, and the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, as well as book chapters. She is a frequent speaker both locally and nationally and is an active participant in professional organizations. Her primary areas of interest are contraception and the challenges of implementing evidence-based clinical practice.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 750 pages
• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Learning; 2 edition (September 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763756377
• ISBN-13: 978-0763756376

List Price: $91.95