Maternal-Child Nursing

By Kristine NelsonSharon Smith MurrayJean Weiler Ashwill, et al.

Book Overview

Easily master maternity and pediatric nursing care with Maternal-Child Nursing, 5th Edition. This easy-to-read text is filled with a wealth of user-friendly features to help you quickly master essential concepts and skills. It offers completely updated content - including expanded information on the late preterm infant, fetal heart rate pattern identification, obesity in the pregnant woman and children, and enhanced coverage of the QSEN initiative. It also features an abundance of active learning tools so you have ample opportunities to practice applying your knowledge and skills.

Nursing care plans help you apply the nursing process to plan individualized care for the most common maternity and pediatric conditions. Critical to Remember boxes summarize and highlight essential, need-to-know information. Critical Thinking Exercises allow you to apply your knowledge to realistic clinical situations. Communication Cues provide practical tips for effective verbal and nonverbal communication with patients and families. Clinical Reference sections in pediatric chapters present information relevant to each body system, including anatomy and physiology, differences in the pediatric patient, and related laboratory and diagnostic tests. Safety Alerts call attention to important patient safety considerations for better outcomes of nursing care. Glossary at the end of the book offers quick access to all key terms and definitions presented in the text. Want to Know boxes provide teaching guidelines such as communication guides directed at patients and families. Pathophysiology boxes present an illustrated overview of disorders. Updated drug guides summarize key medication information. NEW Completely updated content includes expanded information on the late preterm infant, fetal heart rate pattern identification, obesity in the pregnant woman and children, and the QSEN initiative. UPDATED Evidence-Based Practice boxes with newly researched topics offer the most current practice guidelines to promote quality care. UPDATED Online resources offer the best interactive tools to learn in the most effective way possible. NEW Improved consistency between maternity and pediatric sections makes it easier to switch from one area to the other for more efficient learning.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323401708
• ISBN13: 9780323401708
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 1592 Pages
• Weight: 6.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 8.7" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Maternal child bundle pack

This order came on time and in great condition. I would buy again from this seller.

Great study guide

This study guide makes up for everything that the text book lacks. I got the study guide in time for the 2nd exam and oh boy has it helped. I have recommended to all my fellow class mates to get this book.

This book is a MUST, for nursing students!

This book and the study guide were required for my school of nursing. This book was very, very helpful for both pediatric nursing course and my maternal-child course. It helped so much with all homework assignments and careplans. The way each topic is broken down and labeled is extremely "user friendly". Each illness/disease has a nursing diagnosis as well as nursing interventions. Well worth the $ it cost. I highly recommend. :)

This book is great!

This book is an excellent tool for Maternal Child. I highly recommend it. It is well organized and well written. I didn't feel the need to use outside sources to supplement my information. It was all right there. The case studies and the Care Plans help to bring the abstract into focus. I really enjoyed this book.

Easy to understand, terrific illustrations/pictures

This is a reference book I come back to again and again. The text is written in a no-nonsense straight forward manner. The technical terms are all defined in an easy to use glossary at the beginning of each chapter. This book describes every treatment step in detail in easy to understand language. Its the first book I turn to when dealing with matern-child treatment.