| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Maternal, neonatal, and women's health nursing/ Lynna Y. Littleton and Joan C. Engebretson. |
| Author: |
Littleton, Lynna Y. |
| other author: |
Engebretson, Joan. |
| Published: |
Australia ;Delmar Thomson Learning, : c2002., |
| Description: |
xxx, 1341 p. :ill. (chiefly col.) ;29 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Foundations of nursing care. Nursing in the contemporary health care system -- Issues in maternal, neonatal, and women's health -- Theoretical perspectives on the family -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Ethics, laws, and standards of care -- Home visiting programs and perinatal nursing. Health care of women. Development of women across the life span -- Nutrition for women across the life span -- Health care issues for women across the life span -- Common conditions of the reproductive system -- Violence and abuse. Human sexuality across the life span. Sexual and reproductive function -- Genetics and genetic counseling -- Family planning. Pregnancy. Normal pregnancy -- Management and nursing care of the pregnant woman -- Childbirth preparation and perinatal education -- Management and nursing care of the high-risk client -- Pregnancy in special populations. Assessment of fetal well-being. Fetal development -- Environmental risks affecting fetal well-being -- Evaluation of fetal well-being. Childbirth. Processes of labor and delivery -- Analgesia and anesthesia in labor and delivery -- Intrapartum nursing care -- High-risk births and obstetric emergencies -- Birth and the family. Postpartum health and nursing care. Normal postpartum nursing care -- Postpartum family adjustment -- Lactation and nursing support. Newborn development and nursing care. Physiologic and behavioral transition to extrauterine life -- Assessment and care of the normal newborn -- Newborn nutrition -- Newborns at risk related to birth weight and premature delivery -- Newborns at risk related to congenital and acquired conditons -- Developmental care of the infant at risk. Special considerations. Grief and the family in the perinatal experience -- Community and home health care nursing for the high-risk infant. |
| Subject: |
Gynecologic nursing. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=70682An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585415927 (electronic bk.) |