Women's Health During the Childbearing Years: A Community-Based Approach

By Peggy S. Matteson, Peggy S. Matteson RNC PhD, Peggy S. Matteson RNC PhD

Women's Health During the Childbearing Years: A Community-Based Approach is an exciting new full colour textbook for the undergraduate maternity and/or women's health nursing course. The book has a holistic focus of a woman's health perspective. It is designed to prepare students to provide realistic and holistic care while supporting the woman's efforts at self-care and empowering her to be a partner in future care to whatever degree she desires. Since most health care decisions occur outside of healthcare facilities the initial focus is on interactions with the individual, their family, and their community. This includes the support of complementary therapies as well as medical therapies. Nursing interactions with women during outpatient and in-patient care are then covered in the context of attaining, maintaining, or regaining health. The emphasis throughout is on providing the woman with nursing care within her family and her community in a partnership framework that is community-based and community responsive. This unique and exciting new text carefully integrates nutrition, culture, and patient teaching throughout to stress the importance in the care continuum.Focuses on the care of the woman as a partner in her own health care to teach the nurse how to provide a humanistic, holistic approach to careAge based considerations occur on a continuum so the care of the adolescent and older woman is integrated throughout
Alternative and complementary therapies are included wherever appropriate to stress the importance of understanding culturally based and therapeutic care alternatives to allopathic interventionsNutritional considerations are integrated throughout to provide important information on how to assess, intervene, and evaluate nutritional needs across the continuum of care
Abuse, ethical, and legal issues are included where appropriate to guide the student in effective questioning when assessing the care needs of the woman

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323009158
• ISBN13: 9780323009157
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 936 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 1.0" x 8.3"