Introductory maternity & pediatric nursing

• Main Authors: Klossner, N. Jayne (Author), Hatfield, Nancy T. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2006
• Subjects: Maternal-Child Nursing > methods; Pediatric Nursing > methods; Nursing Process
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This brand-new, full-color textbook presents both maternity and pediatric nursing at an appropriate level for LPN/LVN students. The text uses a nursing process framework and emphasizes the LPN's specific role. Throughout the text are features that help students develop critical thinking skills...

Table of Contents:

• The nurse's role in a changing maternal-child healthcare environment
• Family-centered and community-based maternal and pediatric nursing
• Structure and function of the reproductive system
• Special issues of reproduction and women's health care
• Fetal development
• Maternal adaptation during pregnancy
• Prenatal care
• Labor process
• Pain management during labor and birth
• Nursing care during labor and birth
• Assisted delivery and cesarean birth
• The postpartum woman
• Nursing assessment of newborn transition
• Newborn nutrition
• The normal newborn
• Pregnancy at risk : conditions that complicate pregnancy
• Pregnancy at risk : pregnancy-related complications
• Labor at risk
• Postpartum woman at risk
• The newborn at risk : gestational and acquired disorders
• The newborn at risk: congenital disorders
• Principles of growth and development
• Growth and development of the infant : 28 days to 1 year
• Growth and development of the toddler: 1 to 3 years
• Growth and development of the preschool child : 3 to 6 years
• Growth and development of the school-age child: 6 to 10 years
• Growth and development of the adolescent: 11 to 18 years
• Assessment of the child (data collection)
• Care of the hospitalized child
• Procedures and treatments
• Medication administration and intravenous therapy
• The child with a chronic health problem
• The dying child
• The child with sensory/neurologic disorders
• The Respiratory system disorders
• The child with cardiovascular/hematologic disorders
• The child with gastrointestinal/endocrine disorders
• The child with genitourinary disorders
• The child with musculoskeletal disorders
• The child with integumentary disorders/communicable diseases
• The child with psychosocial disorders.