Maternity-Newborn Nursing Care: Best Evidence-Based Practices (Book with Access Code)

AJN Book-of-the-Year Award-Winner! A comprehensive women’s health reference guide, this “pocket brain” delivers all the practical, evidence-based clinical information you need to care for normal and high-risk pregnant mothers, newborns, and their families in diverse hospital and community settings. This book delves into other women’s health issues that may impact the care of the mother-baby dyad, such as culture, substance abuse, family planning, violence against women and sexually transmitted infections. Perfect for students, new-to-practice, or expert practitioners, this guide provides concise, comprehensive assessments, easy-to-understand tables of lab work-ups and values, common treatment guidelines and the steps to implement and evaluate nursing care. As a special feature to assist with learning how to check a cervix, you can practice using the dilation milestone cut outs inside the book!

1. Health Promotion for Women According to the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) 2. Contraceptive Counseling Table 3. Sexually Transmitted Infections 4. Domestic Violence 5. Multicultural Nursing 6. Pregnancy 7. Medications and Herbs 8. Labor and Delivery 9. Postpartum 10. Newborn 11. Physiology 12. Sample Progress Notes 13. The Compromised Mother and Fetus