Olds’ maternal-newborn nursing & women’s health across the lifespan

Content: UNIT 1: CONTEMPORARY MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING: Current issues in maternal-newborn nursing --
Care of the family in a culturally diverse society --
Complementary and alternative therapies --
UNIT 2: WOMEN'S HEALTH: Women's health 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 --
UNIT 3: HUMAN REPRODUCTION: The reproductive system --
Conception and fetal development --
Special reproductive concerns: infertility and genetics --
UNIT 4: PREGNANCY: Preparation for parenthood --
Physical and psychologic changes of pregnancy --
Antepartal 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 --
UNIT 5: BIRTH: Process and stages of labor and birth --
Intrapartal nursing assessment --
The family in childbirth: needs and care --
Pain management during labor --
Childbirth at risk:the intrapartal period --
Birth-related procedures --
UNIT 8: THE NEWBORN: 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 --
UNIT 7: POSTPARTUM: Postpartal family adaptation and nursing assessment --
The postpartal family: needs and care --
Home care of the postpartal family --
Grief and loss in the childbearing family --
The postpartal family at risk --
APPENDICES: A: Common abbreviations in maternal-newborn and women's health nursing --
B: Conversions and equivalents --
C: Spanish translations of English phrases --
D: Guidelines for working with deaf clients and interpreters --
E: Sign language for healthcare professionals --
F: Actions and effects of selected drugs during breastfeeding --
G: Selected maternal-newborn laboratory values --
Glossary.