Olds maternal newborn nursing & women's health across the lifespan / Michele R. Davidson, Marcia L. London, and Patricia W. Ladewig.

Includes index.

Current issues in maternal-newborn nursing -- Family, culture, and complementary therapies -- Health promotion of women across the lifespan -- Women's health: family planning -- Women's health: commonly occurring infections -- Women's health problems -- Women's care: social issues -- Violence against women -- The reproductive system -- Conception and fetal development -- Special reproductive concerns: infertility and genetics -- Physical and psychologic changes of pregnancy -- Antepartum nursing assessment -- The expectant family: needs and care -- Adolescent pregnancy -- Maternal nutrition -- Pregnancy at risk: pregestational problems -- Pregnancy at risk: gestational onset -- Assessment of fetal well-being -- Processes and stages of labor and birth -- Intrapartum nursing assessment -- The family in childbirth: needs and care -- Pharmacologic pain management -- Childbirth at risk: prelabor and intrapartum complications -- Childbirth at risk: labor-related complications -- Birth-related procedures -- Physiologic responses of the newborn to birth -- Nursing assessment of the newborn -- The normal newborn: needs and care -- Newborn nutrition -- The newborn at risk: conditions present at birth -- The newborn at risk: birth-related stressors -- Postpartum family adaptation and nursing assessment -- The postpartum family: needs and care -- Home care of the postpartum family -- Grief and loss in the childbearing family -- The postpartum family at risk

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