Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan (9e)

For courses in maternal-child nursing, care of women and children, and women’s health, for both 4-year BSN-level courses and selected ADN-level (2-year) programs.

This is a family-focused text that provides comprehensive coverage of maternal-newborn nursing and women’s health with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Accurate, readable, personal, and engaging, it reflects a deep understanding of pregnancy and birth as normal life processes, and of family members as partners in care. This edition includes a deeper discussion of childbirth at risk; four new nursing care plans; updated coverage of contraception, complementary/alternative therapies, and much more. New features include Professionalism in Practice and Health Promotion Education boxes, Clinical Judgment case studies, and Critical Thinking questions. This edition also pays special attention to aligning with the AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.

UNIT 1: Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing

1. Current Issues in Maternal-Newborn Nursing

2. Care of the Family in a Culturally Diverse Society

3. Complementary and Alternative Therapies

UNIT 2: Women’s Health

4. Health Promotion of Women Across the Lifespan

5. Women's Health: Family Planning

6. Women's Health: Commonly Occurring Infections

7. Women's Health Problems

8. Women's Care: Social Issues

9. Violence Against Women

UNIT 3: Human Reproduction

10. The Reproductive System

11. Conception and Fetal Development

12. Special Reproductive Concerns: Infertility and Genetics

UNIT 4: Pregnancy

13. Preparation for Parenthood

14. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy

15. Antepartum Nursing Assessment

16. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care

17. Adolescent Pregnancy

18. Maternal Nutrition

19. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems

20. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset

21. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being

UNIT 5: Birth

22. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth

23. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment

24. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care

25. Pain Management During Labor

26. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications

27. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications

28. Birth-Related Procedures

UNIT 6: The Newborn

29. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth

30. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn

31. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care

32. Newborn Nutrition

33. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth

34. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors

UNIT 7: Postpartum

35. Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment

36. The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care

37. Home Care of the Postpartum Family

38. Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family

39. The Postpartum 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

Revised and Updated! Extensively updated coverage throughout–including new women’s health information on contraception, commonly occurring infections, health promotion, menopause, gynecologic cancers, polycystic ovarian syndrome and pelvic relaxation, genetics/genomics, breast cancer during pregnancy, and much more

• Prepares students to apply the latest knowledge and standards of care as they work with women and families 

• Helps student integrate health promotion and health maintenance into the care for women and childbearing families in all birthing and community settings
• Shows students how to empower patients in their own health promotion

• Supports students in achieving the level of professionalism required in contemporary healthcare settings
• Helps students master professionalism topics that are a key component of the Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing Education 

Improved! Research Evidence in Practice boxes–relating research evidence to women’s health and maternal-newborn nursing, discussing clinical situations and typical nursing practice, identifying current research that supports or fails to support these practices, and encouraging students to think more critically

• Helps students understand the use of reliable information to plan and provide effective care
• Helps students participate in evidence-based care initiatives, and effectively incorporate new evidence in their care decisions

New! Clinical Judgment case studies and Critical Thinking questions– presenting brief scenarios and requiring students to determine the appropriate responses

• Helps students hone their critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills, both of which are key components of the Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing Edication.

Updated! Learning Outcomes–now reflect the revised Bloom’s taxonomy

• Promotes deeper learning and more active thinking

New! Photos in chapter-opening vignettes–adding more realism and visual interest

• Helps engage students from the beginning of each chapter 

New! Nearly 100 new lifelike obstetric illustrations–clarifying body systems and behavior

• Gives students a clearer understanding of obstetric concepts

Improved! Special attention to AACN competencies–identified in the AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice

• Systematically prepares students participating in Baccalaureate programs

New! New chapter on Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Complications–providing a more extended discussion of the impact of pregestational physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions

• More thoroughly prepares students to care for women experiencing prelabor complications

New! Four new nursing plans–covering Epidural Anesthesia, Hemorrhage in the Third Trimester and at Birth, A Woman With Engorgement, and Induction of Labor

• Offers complete, easy-to-use reference material for a wider range of common scenarios

New! Caring for women and mothers with intellectual disabilities–added in three chapters

• Helps students respond to the special needs of women and mothers with intellectual disabilities 

Updated! Revised coverage of complementary and alternative therapies–in a separate chapter as well as in intra-chapter CAM content

• Provides up-to-date, evidence-based resources for providing (or answering questions about) complementary and alternative therapies 

New! Coverage of maternal death–incorporated in a full chapter on Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family

• Helps students prepare for partnering with women and their families for all outcomes, including painful losses
• Guides students in finding authentic ways to support grieving families

For courses in maternal-child nursing, care of women and children, and women’s health, for both 4-year BSN-level courses and selected ADN-level (2-year) programs.

This is a family-focused text that provides comprehensive coverage of maternal-newborn nursing and women’s health with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Accurate, readable, personal, and engaging, it reflects a deep understanding of pregnancy and birth as normal life processes, and of family members as partners in care. This edition includes a deeper discussion of childbirth at risk; four new nursing care plans; updated coverage of contraception, complementary/alternative therapies, and much more. New features include Professionalism in Practice and Health Promotion Education boxes, Clinical Judgment case studies, and Critical Thinking questions. This edition also pays special attention to aligning with the AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.

Hallmark Features

Comprehensive coverage—including contemporary maternal-newborn nursing challenges; women’s health; human reproduction; pregnancy; birth; the newborn and postpartum families

• Thoroughly prepares students to participate in maternal-newborn nursing and women's health across the entire lifespan 

Step-by-Step Procedures—walking students through common tasks that will be expected of them in clinical situations, with preparation steps, rationales, required equipment and supplies, and step-by-step procedures

• Guides students in performing procedures, helping them gain both mastery and confidence

“Through the Eyes of a Nurse” features—shows how a nurse can establish a connection with a couple throughout the pregnancy and after the birth of their baby, via integrated coverage in the text and online video

• Shows students what a true nurse-family partnership looks like

Strong focus on patient and family teaching—including complete Patient Teaching Plans and teaching tools foruse in educating patients and families about self-care and special health care issues

• Helps students teach patients and families more effectively, leading to better outcomes 

Community-Based Nursing Care coverage—supporting the trend toward increased delivery of nursing care in community-based settings

• Helps students provide effective care in community-based settings 

Developing Cultural Competence boxes—fostering students’ awareness of cultural factors that influence a family’s expectations of and responses to health care providers, and their experiences with the health care system

• Prepares students to work with women and families from all backgrounds and environments

Drug Guides—focus on correctly administering selected medications commonly used in maternal-newborn nursing, and in evaluating the effects of those medications

• Helps students learn  to administer medication properly, and assess their effects

Key terms lists—at the front of each chapter, with page numbers referencing where each term first appears; first references are in bold type

• Gives students fast access to the terminology they will need to learn 

Extensive online resources, cross-referenced throughout the text—including videos, activities, and much more

• Enhances learning and provides hands-on experiences that go beyond reading

Focus Your Study summaries—outlining the main points of each chapter

• Helps students review more efficiently and effectively