Nurse*s Clinical Guide To Maternity Care

Updated to include most-current care for high-risk patients, current nutritional recommendations, updated illustrations of procedures, more help for maternal home care (including early discharge), current drugs, and NANDA terminology. Contents include contributors; preface; overview of maternity care: components of comprehensive maternity care, reproductive anatomy and physiology; nursing care during the antepartal period: conception and fetal development, physiologic and psychosocial changes during normal pregnancy, the normal antepartal period, high-risk antepartal patients, antepartal complications; nursing care during the intrapartal period: physiology of labor and childbirth, fetal assessment, comfort and support during labor and childbirth, the four stages of labor, high-risk intrapartal patients, intrapartal complications and procedures; and nursing care during the postpartal period: physiology of the postpartal period, normal postpartal adaptation, postpartal complications, and maternal care at home. With assessment checklist and gatefold.