Clinical Handbook for Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing and Women's Health Across the Lifespan

by Davidson, Michele; London, Marcia L.; Ladewig, Patricia W.

• ISBN13: 9780132324410
• ISBN10: 0132324415
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

An ideal companion resource toOlds'Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 8/e. 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 pocket guide is an ideal resource providing vital information to guide maternal-newborn nurses from pregnancy to the postpartum and newborn stages.It features drug guides, procedures, and common abbreviations for terminology.For student nurses gaining clinical experience.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. V
The Antepartal Client	p. 1
The At-Risk antepartal Client	p. 35
The Intrapartal Client	p. 71
The At-Risk Intrapartal Client	p. 109
The Normal Newborn	p. 146
The At-Risk Newborn	p. 174
The Postpartal Client	p. 218
Family Planning	p. 239
Home Care of the Postpartal Family	p. 253
The At-Risk Postpartal Client	p. 260
Drug Guides	p. 286
Procedures	p. 317
Appendices	p. 373
Index	p. 405
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