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Fourth Edition
By
Elizabeth Gilbert, RNC, MS, FNPc, Family Nurse Practitioner in Private Practice, Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Graduate Program, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Description
With today's technologic advances and the help of knowledgeable nurses, women have a better chance of having a positive outcome of even
a high risk pregnancy and delivery than ever before. Manual of High Risk Pregnancy & Delivery, 4th Edition provides the user with comprehensive
information in a concise, accessible format. The book presents various problems in a consistent format that includes incidence, etiology,
physiology, pathophysiology, and medical management with protocols for nurse practitioners. It also addresses collaborative problems
and desired outcomes.
Contents
UNIT I. PHYSIOLOGIC CONSIDERATIONS, ASSESSMENTS, AND INTEGRATIVE THERAPIES
1. Physiologic and Nutritional Adaptations
to Pregnancy
2. General Nursing Assessment of the High Risk Expectant Family
3. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
4.
Perinatal Screening, Diagnoses, and Fetal Therapies
5. Integrative Therapies in Pregnancy and Childbirth
UNIT
II. PSYCHOLOGIC IMPLICATIONS OF A HIGH RISK PREGNANCY
6. Psychologic Adaptations
7. Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal
Grief
UNIT III. ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PERINTAL NURSING
8. Ethical Decision
Making
9. Legal Issues and Risk Management
UNIT IV. HEALTH DISORDERS COMPLICATING PREGNANCY
10.
Diabetes
11. Cardiac Disease
12. Renal Disease
13. Autoimmune Diseases
14. Pulmonary Disease and Respiratory
Distress
UNIT V. COMPLICATIONS IN PREGNANCY
15. Spontaneous Abortion
16. Ectopic Pregnancy
17.
Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
18. Placental Abnormalities
19. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
20. Hemolytic
Incompatibility
21. Hypertensive Disorders
22. Preterm Labor and Multiple Gestation
23. Premature Rupture of Membranes
24.
Trauma
UNIT VI. TERATOGENS AND SOCIAL ISSUES COMPLICATING PREGNANCY
25. Sexually and Nonsexually Transmitted
Genitourinary Infections
26. Substance Abuse
UNIT VII. ALTERATIONS IN THE MECHANISM OF LABOR
27.
Labor Stimulation
28. Dysfunctional Labor
29. Prolonged Pregnancy
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 752 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-04016-7
ISBN-10: 0-323-04016-0
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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