Maternity, Perinatal & Women's Health

Spiritual Midwifery

Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of women to the concept of natural childbirth. Back again are even more amazing birthing tales, including those from women who were babies in earlier editions and stories about Old Order Amish women attended by the Farm midwives.

Also new is information about the safety of techniques routinely used in hospitals during and after birth, information on postpartum depression and maternal death, and recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives.

From the amazing birthing tales to care of the newborn, Spiritual Midwifery is still one of the best books an expectant mother could own. Includes resources for doulas, childbirth educators, birth centers, and other organizations and alliances dedicated to improving maternity care at home and in hospitals.

Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan (8th Edition)

Nurses working with childbearing families face a variety new challenges, including shortened lengths of hospital stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health-care systems. This book is not only important reading for maternity nurses, but also can be used as an invaluable reference tool.

The Eighth Edition of this popular book not only continues to emphasize the central role played by maternity nurses working with today's childbearing families, but also includes a global perspective, covering culture as a factor in relating to the woman's childbirth experience. It also includes a comprehensive, accessible segment on women's health issues.

For nurses in the fields of women's health, maternity, and newborn care

Prentice Hall Nursing Reviews & Rationals: Maternal-Newborn Nursing (2nd Edition)

For course review on a specific topic, e.g., maternity nursing, review for NCLEX-RN, and review for specialty training. This resource provides a core content review of the subject in outline format. Each chapter opens with a brief outline, objectives, key terms with definitions, media box with summary of the CD, as well as a pre-test. The pre-test and post-test guide the student through a self-paced review. Other features unique to this resource help further enhance the review process.

Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Child Health Nursing (2nd Edition)

For course review on a specific topic, e.g., pediatric nursing, review for NCLEX-RN, and review for specialty training. This resource provides a core content review of the subject in outline format. Each chapter opens with a brief outline, objectives, key terms with definitions, media box with summary of CD content, as well as a pre-test. The pre-test and post-test guide the student through a self-paced review. Other features unique to this resource help further enhance the review process.

Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing (Foundations of Maternal- Newborn Nursing)

Known for its user-friendly, easy-to-understand coverage of complex concepts, this outstanding textbook provides all the information you need to provide competent nursing care to women and newborns. Step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions help you quickly master key skills and techniques. The importance of understanding family, culture, client teaching, communication, and clinical decision making is emphasized throughout. This edition also features a new title that reflects its expanded coverage of women's health issues.

• More than 30 Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions help you to apply the nursing process to clinical situations and provide models for effective client and family care.







• UNIQUE! Communication Cues provide guidance for interpreting client and family statements and behaviors.









• UNIQUE! Therapeutic Communication boxes illustrate actual client and family dialogues that can be used in clinical practice.









• Procedures provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills and procedures, with rationales for each step.









• Critical Thinking Exercises present realistic clinical situations and challenge you to prioritize and think critically.









• Check Your Reading questions at the end of each section help you assess your mastery of key content.









• Drug Guides outline important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications.









• UNIQUE! Want to Know Boxes offer extensive client education guidelines for maternity and women's health settings.

• A new chapter on Preventive Care for Women emphasizes health promotion and health maintenance throughout the childbearing years and beyond, including the latest health screening recommendations.







• Evidence-based practice boxes reinforce the importance of integrating research-based practice guidelines into practice.









• Updated coverage includes current research on hot topics in today's practice, including elective inductions, cesarean deliveries, and the late preterm infant.









• Integrated electronic features enhance learning with interactive multimedia content such as video clips and animations.

Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing

Part of the popular LPN Threads series, this leading text provides a solid foundation in obstetrics and pediatric nursing. Its concise, logical organization by developmental stages, discussion of disorders by body system from simple-to-complex and health-to-illness, and a focus on health promotion and on the family make it a complete guide to caring for maternity and pediatric patients.

• Focuses on family-centered care, health promotion and illness prevention, women's health issues, and growth and development of the child and parent.
• Covers a wide range of maternal and pediatric care with 35 skills and provides expected outcomes, interventions, and rationales for nursing care 30 nursing care plans.
• Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each Nursing Care Plan challenge students to evaluate and apply the plan of care to specific clinical situations.
• Nursing Tips throughout the text provide pertinent information applicable in the clinical setting.
• Pictorial story of a vaginal birth includes photos through delivery.
• Cultural considerations as they relate to pregnancy and delivery, maternal/infant, and pediatric care in detailed tables help nurses develop cultural sensitivity when caring for diverse patient populations.
• Cultural Assessment Data Collection Tool checklist assists the nurse in developing an individualized plan of care.

• Health Promotion Considerations boxes focus on prenatal wellness, health during pregnancy, postnatal health, and more.
• Companion CD-ROM, bound with the book, includes videos of both a normal delivery and a cesarian birth, 70 neonatal and pediatric assessment video clips, 3-D animations, audio glossary, and Patient Teaching Plans in Spanish and English.
• Discusses CPR specifically for the pregnant patient.
• MyPyramid illustrates the 2005 revised nutrition guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Provides discussions of changes in clinical care recommendations, including use of Ipecac® for poisoning, vaginal birth after caesarian, and pain relief in newborns.
• Includes the latest content on infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy, sexual abuse, assault, rape in the pediatric population, and the adolescent as a parent.
• Includes an appendix of JCAHO Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols.

Core Curriculum for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (Core Curriculum for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (AWHONN))

Perfect as a resource in the field or for exam preparation, this authoritative reference from the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) includes in-depth coverage of the most common neonatal disorders and their management. The concise outline format highlights the essentials of each condition including definition, etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and outcomes to help you find important information quickly.

• Coverage of key content on the neonatal intensive care nursing certification exam prepares you for test success.
• Information on families, ethics, legal issues, research, case management, and the transition to home emphasizes the importance of total care of the neonatal patient and family.

• New and updated content on late preterm infants, neurologic disorders, and ventilatory strategies provide the latest information from the field for more effective patient outcomes.

Maternity & Women's Health Care (Lowdermilk, Maternity & Women's Health Care)

Maternity & Women's Health Care, 9th Edition takes a collaborative care approach to maternal, newborn, and women's health nursing that emphasizes the nurse's role on the care team. Easy to read and logically organized, it follows the nursing process and offers evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. Key topics include evidence-based practice, family, culture, community, and health promotion. Practical application exercises and comprehensive care plans help strengthen your maternity nursing skills.

• Practical application approach follows the nursing process and emphasizes collaborative care and the nurse's role in health promotion and the family.
• Comprehensive nursing care plans provide examples of both normal and abnormal conditions.
• Nurse Alert boxes highlight essential nursing care information.
• Focuses on the importance of including the family in the continuum of care.
• Explores cultural considerations and the importance of assessing for and understanding cultural variations when providing care.
• Teaching for Self-Care boxes provide follow-up care instructions for patients transitioning from hospital to home.
• Medication Guides offer information about common drugs used during the childbearing process.

• Evidence-Based Practice boxes explore research findings and their effect on clinical practice.
• Critical Thinking Exercises help you strengthen problem-solving skills by applying key concepts to realistic clinical situations.
• Community Activity Exercises introduce you to nursing care in a variety of settings.

Maternal Child Nursing Care (Wong, Maternal Child Nursing Care)

This market-leading textbook provides just the "right amount" of maternity and pediatric content in an easy-to-understand manner. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book includes 28 chapters on maternity nursing and the second part contains 27 chapters covering pediatric nursing. Numerous illustrations, photos, boxes, and tables clarify key content and help you quickly find essential information. And because it's written by market-leading experts in maternity and pediatric nursing, you can be sure you're getting the accurate, practical information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the NCLEX^® examination.

• UNIQUE! Nursing Alerts point out critical information to consider when caring for patients.







• UNIQUE! Guidelines boxes outline instructions for skills or procedures in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format.









• UNIQUE! Emergency boxes offer quick reference to emergency procedures for critical maternity and pediatric emergencies.









• UNIQUE! Home Care boxes offer helpful guidelines for delivering effective care in the home environment.









• UNIQUE! Atraumatic Care boxes in the pediatric section illustrate how to provide competent nursing care without creating undue physical or psychological stress for pediatric patients, families, and nurses.









• UNIQUE! Community Focus boxes examine community issues and provide resources and guidance on caring for families outside the clinical setting.









• UNIQUE! Cultural Awareness boxes address culturally competent care for patients with a variety of customs and beliefs.









• UNIQUE! Family-Centered Care boxes discuss the family's role and needs in caring for the patient.









• UNIQUE! Nursing Process boxes offer quick access to nursing process information for major diseases and conditions.









• Critical Thinking Exercises provide case scenarios to promote sound clinical decision making.









• Nursing Care Plans include rationales for interventions and provide specific guidelines for delivering effective nursing care.









• Patient Teaching boxes highlight important information for communicating continuing care instructions to patients and families.

• New and consolidated content on pain assessment and management focuses on this key aspect of pediatric nursing.







• Updated content on evidence-based practice illustrates how current research can be used to improve patient outcomes.









• The latest information in the field is included throughout, including expanded coverage of the late preterm infant and fetal heart rate pattern identification.

Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception

Before Your Pregnancy is a breakthrough book for prospective parents—a completely detailed resource that prepares mothers and fathers-to-be to conceive the healthiest baby possible, to make pregnancy and delivery easier, and to foster the mental and physical well-being of their infant child. Created by two experienced health-care professionals, this unique handbook not only discusses virtually every aspect of preconception that affects a healthy baby, it tells you how to handle each one. The authors spell out what each parent needs to do, starting at least ninety days before conception (the minimum time needed for sperm to mature). The hundreds of topics covered—many for the first time in any book—include

• Men’s Health: Building healthy sperm before conception (nutrition, fitness, and medical influences)
• Women’s Health: Gynecologic well-being, preexisting medical conditions, genetic legacy, boosting fertility, becoming a mother at an older age
• Becoming an Informed Patient: Choosing a doctor, what a complete preconception exam includes, important questions and how to ask them, insurance coverage
• Nutrition: Improving the health of future generations, preconception meal makeovers, ethnic Food Guide Pyramids, avoiding food-borne illnesses, vitamin and mineral facts, pre-pregnancy body weight
• Fitness: Preconception fitness evaluation and exercise prescription, safety tips and motivational anecdotes, preconception strength and flexibility workout
• Medications/Herbs: Baby-friendly ones and ones to avoid
• Personal Readiness: Emotional, financial, and environmental issues
• Romancing the Egg: Tips for success when ready to “start trying”
Plus: Separate questionnaires for the prospective parents to fill out in preparation for their preconception medical visit.

This warm, intelligent, and completely informed reference gives aspiring parents exactly the knowledge and support they need to insure the best of everything for their child-to-be.