Perfect for course review now...and NCLEX prep later! 1,263 questions address all of maternal/newborn nursing class content. 1,013 questions in text are followed by a comprehensive 100-question test. And as a bonus, there s a CD-ROM with two final exams of 75 questions each. The questions reflect the latest NCLX-RN test plan, with a focus on content related to physiological integrity. All questions in the final exam and on the CD include rationales for both correct and incorrect answers. Click Here for a Special Mail-In Rebate Offer

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions.

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of maternal-newborn nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post-tests with rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts. Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews&Rationales Series includes a comprehensive CD-ROM, to provide additional review. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering reproduction, fetal development, nursing care during the normal and complicated prenatal, intrapartal, and postpartal periods, nursing care of the newborn, and much more. For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.

Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of women to the concept of natural childbirth. Back again are even more amazing birthing tales, including those from women who were babies in earlier editions and stories about Old Order Amish women attended by the Farm midwives. Also new is information about the safety of techniques routinely used in hospitals during and after birth, information on postpartum depression and maternal death, and recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives. From the amazing birthing tales to care of the newborn, Spiritual Midwifery is still one of the best books an expectant mother could own. Includes resources for doulas, childbirth educators, birth centers, and other organizations and alliances dedicated to improving maternity care at home and in hospitals.

Co-written by a maternity and pediatrics nursing author team throughly integrates materna-newborn nursing adn pediatric nursing in one since book.  Equal focus is placed on community-based and hospital-based care to address the increasing balance between both nursing care settings.   This edition has increased coverage of pain assessment and management, nutrition and health promotion, patient education and communication, research based practice, and assessment as the core of the nursing process.    A CD-ROM includes NCLEX-RN practice questions and Critical Thinking in Action videos.

Master content from the textbook with this helpful study tool! Designed to accompany Murray's Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 5th Edition, this workbook will assist students in understanding and applying material from each chapter in the text.

With comprehensive coverage of maternal, newborn, and women's health nursing, Maternity&Women's Health Care, 10th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. It's the #1 maternity book in the market -- and now respected authors Dr. Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Dr, Shannon E. Perry, Kitty Cashion, and Kathryn R. Alden have improved readability and provided a more focused approach! Not only does this text emphasize childbearing issues and concerns, including care of the newborn, it addresses wellness promotion and management of common women's health problems. In describing the continuum of care, it integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, and community-based care. New to this edition is the most current information on care of the late preterm infant and the 2008 updated fetal monitoring standards from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.A logical organization builds understanding by presenting wellness content first, then complications.Critical Reasoning exercises offer real-life situations in which you can develop analytical skills and apply their knowledge.Teaching for Self-Management boxes offer a guide to communicating follow-up care to patients and their families.Signs of Potential Complications boxes help you recognize the signs and symptoms of complications and provide immediate interventions.Procedure boxes offer easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions for maternity skills and procedures.Emergency boxes may be used for quick reference in critical situations.Medication Guide boxes provide an important reference for common drugs and their interactions.Cultural Considerations boxes stress the importance of considering the beliefs and health practices of patients from various cultures when providing care.Family content emphasizes the importance of including family in the continuum of care.Nursing Care Plans include specific guidelines and rationales for interventions for delivering effective nursing care.Community Activity exercises introduce activities and nursing care in a variety of local settings.Student resources on the companion Evolve website include assessment and childbirth videos, animations, case studies, critical thinking exercises with answers, nursing skills, anatomy reviews, a care plan constructor, review questions, an audio glossary, and more.Content updates provide the most current practice guidelines, including expanded information on the late preterm infant and fetal heart rate pattern identification.New content on obesity provides the latest information on this increasingly common condition.Safety Alerts help in developing competencies related to safe nursing practice in conjunction with the QSEN initiative on quality and safety in nursing care.Updated Evidence-Based Practice boxes highlight current research to improve patient outcomes.Updated NICHD fetal monitoring standards provide guidelines reflecting current practice, as recommended by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.Video clips on the companion Evolve website reinforce key skills performed in the maternity setting.Audio Key Points on Evolve make it easy to review core content while on the go.Streamlined nursing process information is summarized in boxes, making it easier to identify information on major diseases and conditions.

This market-leading textbook provides just the "right amount" of maternity and pediatric content in an easy-to-understand manner. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book includes 28 chapters on maternity nursing and the second part contains 27 chapters covering pediatric nursing. Numerous illustrations, photos, boxes, and tables clarify key content and help you quickly find essential information. And because it's written by market-leading experts in maternity and pediatric nursing, you can be sure you're getting the accurate, practical information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the NCLEX® examination.UNIQUE! Nursing Alerts point out critical information to consider when caring for patients. UNIQUE! Guidelines boxes outline instructions for skills or procedures in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format.UNIQUE! Emergency boxes offer quick reference to emergency procedures for critical maternity and pediatric emergencies.UNIQUE! Home Care boxes offer helpful guidelines for delivering effective care in the home environment.UNIQUE! Atraumatic Care boxes in the pediatric section illustrate how to provide competent nursing care without creating undue physical or psychological stress for pediatric patients, families, and nurses.UNIQUE! Community Focus boxes examine community issues and provide resources and guidance on caring for families outside the clinical setting.UNIQUE! Cultural Awareness boxes address culturally competent care for patients with a variety of customs and beliefs.UNIQUE! Family-Centered Care boxes discuss the family's role and needs in caring for the patient.UNIQUE! Nursing Process boxes offer quick access to nursing process information for major diseases and conditions.Critical Thinking Exercises provide case scenarios to promote sound clinical decision making.Nursing Care Plans include rationales for interventions and provide specific guidelines for delivering effective nursing care.Patient Teaching boxes highlight important information for communicating continuing care instructions to patients and families.New and consolidated content on pain assessment and management focuses on this key aspect of pediatric nursing.Updated content on evidence-based practice illustrates how current research can be used to improve patient outcomes.The latest information in the field is included throughout, including expanded coverage of the late preterm infant and fetal heart rate pattern identification.

Revised and updated, this new 6th edition is the all-in-one source for practical, reliable information on nursing care during the childbearing years. Designed to meet the needs of today's students, it addresses the fundamentals of maternity nursing with a clear, more readable writing style and a concise, more focused content presentation. Integrating the importance of understanding family, culture, and health promotion into the continuum of care, it also includes a strategic integration of community-based care to emphasize that care can take place wherever the woman may be.· Care management emphasized throughout.· Women's health content is up front to provide a thorough understanding of health promotion and prevention, common health concerns and care of women throughout childbearing years.· Home Care content is integrated in all normal and high risk nursing care chapters.· Family content is first introduced in Chapter 2 and then incorporated in the pregnancy, labor&birth, postpartum, and newborn chapters to emphasize the importance of including the family in the continuum of care.· Culture content introduced in Chapter 2 and then integrated throughout.· Health promotion and prevention integrated to maintain a focus on wellness as an integral part of today's maternity nursing care.· Patient Instructions for Self-Care boxes integrated throughout provides special instructions for follow-up care.· Care of the childbearing adolescent integrated throughout providing important age related considerations.· Nurse Alert boxes highlight· English/Spanish Guidelines boxes provide the student with a handy reference for communicating with and teaching patients&families. · Emergency Boxes alert the student to signs&symptoms of important situations.· Free Companion CD with interactive case studies, matching and fill-in-the-blank questions, review questions, and a vocabulary review with sound pronunciations.

Part of the popular LPN Threads series, Introduction to Maternity&Pediatric Nursing provides a solid foundation in obstetrics and pediatric nursing. An easy-to-follow organization by developmental stages, discussion of disorders by body system from simple-to-complex and health-to-illness, and a focus on family health make it a complete guide to caring for maternity and pediatric patients. Written in a clear, concise style by Gloria Leifer, MA, RN, this edition reflects the current NCLEX® test plan with additional material on safety, health promotion, nutrition, and related psychosocial care.Cultural Considerations boxes and a Cultural Assessment Data Collection Tool help in developing individualized plans of care.Updated health promotion content includes Health Promotion boxes focusing on preventive strategies for achieving prenatal wellness, health during pregnancy, postnatal health, and pediatric illness prevention and wellness -- including the complete immunization schedules for all ages.Nursing Tips provide information applying to the clinical setting.Objectives are listed in each chapter opener.Key terms include phonetic pronunciations and text page references at the beginning of each chapter. Nursing Care Plans with critical thinking questions help you understand how a care plan is developed, how to evaluate care of a patient, and how to apply critical thinking skills.A companion Evolve website includes animations, videos, answers to review questions and answer guidelines for critical thinking questions, an English/Spanish audio glossary, critical thinking case studies, and additional review questions for the NCLEX examination.Get Ready for the NCLEX®Examination! sections at the end of each chapter help you prepare for classroom tests and the NCLEX examination.Increased focus on safety helps you prepare for safe nursing practice, with:Safety Alert! boxes based on The Joint Commission's 2009/2010 National Patient Safety GoalsMedication Safety Alert! boxes highlighting serious and potentially fatal medication errors in infants and childrenNew information on determining pediatric dosages and a discussion of the Pedislide systemNew skills include step-by-step instructions for:Bathing the NewbornAssessing the Length and Height of Infants and ChildrenCalculating BMIRemoval of a Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Using the Peak FlowmeterUsing a Metered-Dose InhalerUpdated, vibrant full-color design highlights key information and enhances your understanding of important concepts.Updated nutrition content compares commercially available infant formulas and discusses organic, natural, and dietetic foods.Nutrition Considerations boxes cover prenatal care, nutritional issues during infancy, and the crisis in childhood obesity.Memory Jogger boxes help you remember important material with mnemonics, tips, and tricks.An updated glossary is available in the textbook, as well as on the companion Evolve website.