Essentials of Maternal-Newborn Nursing :: FREE Shipping

• Hardback book by Patricia A. Ladewig, Marcia L. London and Sally B. Olds
• Over 690 pages
• Copyright © 1986 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

Brief Contents includes:

" Preface

UNIT I
Basic Concepts in Maternal-Newborn Nursing

1 Contemporary Maternal Newborn Care
2 Reproductive and Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
3 Families with Special Reproductive Problems

UNIT II
Pregnancy

4 Conception and Fetal Development
5 Physical and Psychologic Responses to Pregnancy
6 Antepartal Nursing Assessment
7 The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
8 Maternal Nutrition
9 Preparation for Childbirth
10 Complication of Pregnancy
11 Diagnostic Assessment of Fetal Status

UNIT III
Labor and Delivery

12 Processes and Stages of labor
13 Intrapartal Nursing Assessment
14 The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
15 Birthing Options
16 Obstetric Analgesia and Anesthesia
17 Complications of Labor and Delivery
18 Elective Obstetric Procedures

UNIT IV
The Newborn

19 Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
20 Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
21 The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
22 Complications of the Neonate

UNIT V
The Puerperium

23 Postpartal Adaptation and Assessment
24 The Postpartal Family: Needs and Care
25 Complications of the Puerperium
26 Families in Crisis and the Role of the Nurse

Appendices
Glossary
Index "

This book is in pretty good condition with moderate edgewear to the cover.
No torn or ripped pages.
The edges of the pages look dirty from the side view.
There are many pages with highlighting and markings.