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MATERNITY NURSING
Maternity Nursing
An Introductory Text
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Tenth Edition

By
Gloria Leifer, MA, RN, Associate Professor, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, and Trauma Nursing, Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA

Description
Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text provides essential content for a solid foundation in maternity nursing. Its easy-to-follow body system approach progresses along a continuum from conception to adulthood, emphasizing prevention, early recognition, antepartum care, and the family. With its easy-to-read, clear writing style, it provides exactly the right depth and breadth of content for LPN/LVNs.

Contents
Unit One: Social and Family Dynamics

1. Contemporary Maternity Care, Family, and Cultural Considerations

2. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

Unit Two: Development of the Fetus

3. Fetal Development

Unit Three: Pregnancy

4. Physiologic and Psychologic Changes During Pregnancy

5. Healthcare and Fetal Assessment During Pregnancy

Unit Four: Labor and Birth

6. Process of Normal Labor

7. Nursing Care During Labor

8. Management of Pain During Labor

Unit Five: The Newborn

9. Physiologic Adaptation of the Newborn to Birth

10. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn

11. Nursing Care of the Newborn

12. Newborn Feeding

Unit Six: Postpartum Assessment

13. Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 536 pages, publication date: OCT-2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-4870-1
ISBN-10: 1-4160-4870-7
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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