Davis Advantage for Maternal-Newborn Nursing Critical Components of Nursing Care

by Miller, Connie; Durham, Roberta

• ISBN13: 9781719651783
• ISBN10: 1719651787
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781719651790
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2026-10-19
• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
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Summary

Davis Advantage for Maternal-Newborn Nursing combines a student-friendly textbook with Davis Advantage, a fully integrated online learning platform. The textbook builds a strong foundation while Davis Advantage delivers personalized learning modules, clinical judgment cases, quizzes, and simulations, creating a comprehensive experience for both students and instructors. An access code inside new, printed textbooks unlocks an eBook, as well as access to Davis Advantage.

THE TEXTBOOK 

A highly visual, easy-to-scan approach puts essential content front and center. Bulleted text, diagrams, tables, clinical pathways, and concept maps break down complex concepts and support clinical judgment. Designed with the same structure and features as Pediatric Nursing, it creates a seamless learning experience when used together.

ONLINE (DAVIS ADVANTAGE)

Using a unique and proven approach across a Learn-Apply-Assess-Simulate continuum, Davis Advantage’s Personalized Learning, Clinical Judgment, Quizzing, and Simulation assignments engage students; help them make the connections to key topics; and prepare for NCLEX® success.

• LEARN—Personalized Learning
  The foundation of the Davis Advantage platform, Personalized Learning, immerses students in an online learning experience tailored to their needs. Students are assessed on their comprehension of key topics from the text, and then are guided through animated mini-lecture videos and dynamic activities to reinforce learning and bring concepts to life.
• APPLY—Clinical Judgment
  Clinical Judgment develops students’ critical thinking and clinical reasoning, helping them to build the clinical judgment skills they need to practice safe and effective nursing care and to prepare for the NCLEX® with confidence. Progressive case studies featuring real-life, complex clinical situations challenge students to apply knowledge, make informed decisions, and evaluate outcomes.
• ASSESS—Quizzing
  Quizzing uses NCLEX®-style questions for assessment and remediation. Its adaptive, question-based format provides the additional practice students need to test their knowledge, master course content, and perform well on course and board exams.
• SIMS—Simulate
  Simulations give students a safe, supportive environment to develop clinical judgment while earning clinical hours. These immersive, video-based experiences reinforce core content, promote proper skill technique, and strengthen clinical decision-making skills. As students’ progress, a dynamic EHR evolves based on their choices, demonstrating how their actions directly impact patient outcomes and preparing them for real-world practice.

Table of Contents

I. Maternity Nursing Overview
    1. Trends and Issues
    2. Ethics and Standards of Practice Issues

II. The Antepartal Period
    3. Genetics, Conception, Fetal Development, and Reproductive Technology
    4. Physiological Aspects of Pregnancy
    5. The Psycho-Social-Cultural Aspects of Pregnancy
    6. Antepartum Tests
    7. Complications of Pregnancy

III. The Intrapartal Period
    8. Labor and Birth
    9. Fetal Heart Rate Assessment
    10. Complications of Labor and Birth
    11. Intrapartum and Postpartum Care of the Cesarean Birth Families

IV. The Postpartal Period
    12. Postpartum Physiological Assessments and Nursing Care
    13. Transition to Parenthood
    14. Postpartum Complications and Nursing Care

V. The Neonatal Period
    15. Nursing Care of the Neonate and Family
    16. Newborn Nutrition
    17. Neonate Complications and Nursing Care

VI. Women’s Health
    18. Well Women’s Health
    19. Alterations in Women’s Health

VII. Appendices (Online Only)
    A. Laboratory Values
    B. Preeclampsia Early Recognition Tool (PERT)
    C. Cervical Dilation Chart
    D. Temperature and Weight Conversion Charts
    E. Labor and Birth Records
    F. Clinical Pathways
    G. Photo and Illustration Credits

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