Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing

By Emily Slone McKinney and Sharon Smith Murray

Book Overview

Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 7th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. With easy-to-understand language, this updated text uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making.?This edition reflects the latest QSEN competencies, and the accompanying Evolve website includes review questions to prepare students for the NCLEX(R) exam

Safety checks integrated into the content help you develop competencies related to safe nursing practiceUnfolding case studies help you apply what you've learned to practiceUPDATED Evidence-Based Practice boxes highlight the latest research and the most current QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) practice guidelines for quality carePatient teaching boxes provide teaching guidelines, including communication guides, directed at patients and familiesCritical to Remember boxes highlight and summarize need-to-know informationCritical Thinking exercises focus on clinical situations designed to test your skills in prioritizing and critical thinkingNursing Care Plans help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations.Chapter summaries appear at the end of each chapter and help you review core content in each chapter while on the goUpdated Drug guides list important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medicationsProcedure boxes provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills, with rationales for each stepUNIQUE Therapeutic Communications boxes present realistic nurse-patient dialogues, identifying communication techniques and showing to respond when encountering communication blocksKnowledge check helps you assess your mastery of key contentGlossary provides definitions of all key termsNEW Reorganized content integrates complications into standard family care, includes new sections on obesity, and recommendations for infant safe sleep environment and reductions of SIDS riskNEW Contributing content from known experts in the field of Maternal and Women's health include a former AWHONN president

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323398944
• ISBN13: 9780323398947
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 7.9"