Introductory maternity and pediatric nursing

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Klossner, N. Jayne (Author), Hatfield, Nancy T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , c2006
Subjects:
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
  • The labor process
  • Pain management during labor and birth
  • Nursing care during labor and birth
  • Assisted delivery and cesarean birth
  • The postpartum woman
  • Newborn adaptation to life outside the womb
  • Infant 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-includes well and sick
  • The hospitalized child
  • Procedures and treatments
  • Medication administration and IV therapy
  • The child with a chronic health problem
  • The dying child
  • The child with sensory/neurologic disorders
  • The child with respiratory 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