Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, & Women's Health Nursing

Ricci (nursing, U. of Central Florida) supplies students and practicing nurses with a condensed version of her textbook Maternity and Pediatric Nursing and details how to care for women and newborns, their risk factors, lifestyle choices that influence well-being, interventions, and nursing education topics. She covers women's health throughout the lifespan, pregnancy, labor and birth, the postpartum period, the newborn, childbearing at risk, and the newborn at risk, omitting the chapters on child health promotion, atraumatic care, child health supervision and assessment, caring for children in diverse settings and special needs children, pediatric nursing interventions, pain management, and management of children's health disorders in this version. This edition has more cultural and global aspects, evidence-based research, and pharmacology content; many new images; revised chapter objectives; and additional features, such as drug guides, nursing care plans, comparison charts, and tables of common medical treatments and laboratory and diagnostic tests. Resources such as an e-book, National Council Licensure Examination-style (NCLEX) questions, videos, animations, and a Spanish-English audio glossary are online. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)