Maternity Nursing

Unit One: Social and Family Dynamics

1. Contemporary Maternity Care, Family, and Cultural Considerations

2. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

Unit Two: Development of the Fetus

3. Fetal Development

Unit Three: Pregnancy

4. Physiologic and Psychologic Changes During Pregnancy

5. Health Care and Fetal Assessment During Pregnancy

Unit Four: Labor and Birth

6. Process of Normal Labor

7. Nursing Care During Labor

8 . Management of Pain During Labor

Unit Five: The Newborn

9. Physiologic Adaptation of the Newborn and Nursing Assessment

10. Nursing Care of the Newborn

11. Newborn Feeding

Unit Six: Postpartum Assessment

12. Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care

Unit Seven: Complications of Childbearing

13. Health Problems Complicating Pregnancy

14. Complications of Labor and Birth

15. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Associated with Gestational Age and Development

16. The Newborn at Risk: Acquired and Congenital Conditions

17. Postpartum Complications

Unit Eight: Community-Based Care

18. The Pregnant Adolescent and Nursing Care in the Community

Unit Nine: Other Reproductive Issues

19. Family Planning and Infertility

20. Womens Health Issues

21. Complementary and Alternative Therapies

Appendix A: The Joint Commissions Lists of Dangerous Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols

Appendix B: Commonly Used Abbreviations in Maternal and Pediatric Nursing

Appendix C: Common Spanish Phrases for Maternity and Pediatric Nursing

Appendix D: Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms

Appendix E: Conversion Tables

Appendix F: Selected Maternal and Newborn Laboratory Values

Appendix G: Transfer of Selected Drugs and Other Chemicals into Breast Milk

Appendix H: Answers to Review Questions for the NCLEX^® Examination

Bibliography and Reader References

Illustration Credits

Glossary

Index

Study Guide