Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!


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Step into maternal-neonatal nursing with confidence and know-how, with the fully updated Maternal-Neonatal NursingMade Incredibly Easy!®, 4th Edition. This friendly guide’s colorful images and helpful learning aids offer the latest in nursing interventions for prenatal care basics, including high-risk pregnancy, family planning, contraception and infertility, labor and birth, and postpartum care, presented in the enjoyable Incredibly Easy style. Offering practice questions written in NCLEX® exam format, this is the ideal support for nursing students and new nurses preparing for certification and the everyday challenges of the maternal-neonatal unit.




Maternal-neonatal Nursing


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Designed for quick point-of-care reference, this spiralbound pocket guide covers every aspect of maternal-neonatal nursing in a concise format packed with bulleted facts, tables and illustrations. Five distinctive sections cover Disorders, Diagnostic Tests, Treatments, Procedures, and Clinical Tools such as fetal growth and assessment parameters, estimated date of birth calculations, fundal height measurements, cervical dilation guides, drug protocols, postpartum assessment parameters, gestational age assessment, neonatal drug calculations, and neonatal weight conversions. Topics in each section are arranged alphabetically and follow a consistent format. Recurring icons highlight life-threatening disorders, interdisciplinary care, and illustrations of pathophysiology.




Maternal-Neonatal Nursing in a Flash


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Filled with checklists, illustrations, diagrams, flowcharts, and tables, this handy pocket reference gives nurses instant access to essential clinical facts in maternal-neonatal nursing. Contents are organized into tabbed sections: Assessment, Disorders, Diagnostic Tests, Skills, Medications & I.Vs., and Patient Teaching. Coverage includes laboratory values, troubleshooting equipment, drug administration, conversion formulas, I.V. flow rates, and much more. Graphic icons: Alert (clinical cautions, warnings, and important facts) and Snapshot (explanations of pathophysiology).




Maternal-Newborn Nursing


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A better way to learn maternal and newborn nursing! This unique presentation provides tightly focused maternal-newborn coverage in a highly structured text




Maternal and Neonatal Nursing Care Plans


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UNIT 1 Planning Nursing Care 1. Nursing Process UNIT 2 Pregnancy/Antepartum Period 2. Genetic Counseling 3. Trimesters 4. High-risk Pregnancy 5. Cardiac Conditions in Pregnancy 6. Pregnancy-induced Hypertension 7. Diabetes Mellitus: Pre-pregnancy/Gestational 8. Prenatal Hemorrhage 9. Prenatal Infection 10. Premature Dilation of Cervix (Incompetent/Dysfunctional Cervix) 11. Spontaneous Termination of Pregnancy/Abortion 12. Elective Termination 13. Preterm Labor/Prevention of Delivery 14. Pregnant Adolescent 15. Prenatal Substance Abuse/Dependence UNIT 3 Intrapartum Period 16. Labor Stage I: Latent Phase 17. Labor Stage I: Active Phase 18. Labor Stage I: Transition Phase (Deceleration) 19. Labor Stage II: Expulsion of Fetus 20. Labor Stage III: Placental Expulsion 21. Dysfunctional Labor/Dystocia 22. Labor Induction/Augmentation 23. Cesarean Delivery 24. Precipitous Labor/Delivery 25. Intrapartal Hypertension 26. Intrapartal Diabetes Mellitus UNIT 4 Postpartum Period 27. Labor Stage IV: First Four Hours Following Delivery of the Placenta 28. Four Hours to Two Days Postpartum 29. Care Following Cesarean Delivery (4 Hours to 3 Days) 30. Client at 24 to 48 Hours Following Discharge 31. Client at One Week Following Discharge 32. Postpartal Hemorrhage 33. Puerperal Infection 34. Postpartal Diabetes Mellitus 35. Puerperal Thrombophlebitis 36. Parents of Newborns with Special Needs 37. Perinatal Loss UNIT 5 Newborn Period 38. Neonate: First Hour of Life 39. Neonate at Two Hours to Two Days of Age 40. Neonate at Two Days to One Week Following Discharge 41. Preterm Infant 42. Newborn Having Hyperbilirubinemia 43. Neonate of an HIV-Positive Mother 44. Deviations in Growth Patterns 45. Infant of an Addicted Mother 46. Neonatal Circumcision Bibliography Index




Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans


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Explains how to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate care for pregnancy, delivery, recovery, abnormal conditions, and newborn care. Features more than 65 of the most common and high-risk care plans for nursing care using the nursing process approach, this text includes NIC interventions, discussions on collaborative problems, key nursing activities, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic studies. --From publisher description.




Core Curriculum for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing - E-Book


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- NEW! CAMTS and AAMS guidelines, techniques for PICC placement, and changes to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program are just a few of the updates that reveal the importance the new edition places on safety practices and procedures. - NEW! Updated chapter on Patient Safety includes selected improvement strategies and resources for neonatal nurses to build a patient safety toolkit, discusses TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety), and recognizes human issues, such as shift work and fatigue. - NEW! Increased focus on evidence-based practice for preterm infants, medications, and antepartum-intrapartum complications sets the standard for neonatal nursing practice. - NEW! Strategies to promote inclusionary care better reflect nursing care today by focusing on family-centered care, comprehensive perinatal records, health care teams in the NICU, and best practices in the care of the late preterm infant. - NEW! Comprehensively revised chapter on Immunology identifies risk factors for infection associated with term and preterm infants, distinguishes clinical symptoms and therapies associated with TORCHES CLAP spectrum infections, and includes prevention strategies for hospital-acquired infections. - NEW! Thoroughly updated content and references reflect currency and technologic advances. - NEW! Refocused chapter on Developmental Care guides the nurse to use assessment within the context of the environment and situation to initiate interventions in the moment or use patterns of responses for developing plans of care and presents core measures on evaluating developmental care practices in the NICU.




Maternal-Neonatal Facts Made Incredibly Quick!


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Fully updated and now in full-color throughout, Maternal-Neonatal Facts Made Incredibly Quick! Second Edition is the perfect point-of-care reference for nurses working with pregnant patients in any clinical setting. This pocket-sized book provides instant access to information nurses need quickly every day on all aspects of prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal care. The book includes a section on ECG interpretation, the most up-to-date ACLS guidelines, a glossary of common terms, conversion charts, and over 125 quick-reference charts and illustrations. Colored tabs help nurses find information quickly. The wipeable page surface allows nurses to write notes and remove them easily.




Core Curriculum for Maternal-newborn Nursing


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Provides basic and advanced coverage of maternal newborn nursing. Presented in outline format, coverage includes human reproduction, foetal growth and development, normal pregnancy, maternal-foetal well-being, psychosocial and physiological aspects of pregnancy and complications of childbearing.




AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing


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An official publication of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), Perinatal Nursing, Fourth Edition presents up-to-date information based on the most rigorous evidence and offers suggestions for best practices. This new edition of the authoritative, comprehensive text used by perinatal nurses worldwide features a wealth of new content to keep practice current. New chapters related to patient safety and the development of a highly reliable perinatal unit, inform nurses how to conduct team training and drills for obstetric emergencies, create checklists, and effectively handoff patients. It features expanded coverage of high-risk pregnancy, from bleeding in pregnancy to preterm labor and birth, diabetes, cardiac disease, pulmonary complications, multiple gestation, and maternal-fetal transport. An all-new chapter on obesity in pregnancy covers risks to the mother and fetus, care from preconception to postpartum, as well as bariatric surgery. An expanded chapter on newborn nutrition includes new sections on the infant feeding decision, benefits of breastfeeding, nutritional components, and preterm milk and lactation.