Nurse's Clinical Guide to Maternity Care

Overview of maternity care - components of comprehensive maternity care, reproductive anatomy and physiology; cursing care during the antepartal period -conception and foetal development, physiologic and psychosocial changes during normal pregnancy, the normal antepartal period, high-risk antepartal patients, antepartal complications; nursing care during the intrapartal period - physiology of labour and childbirth, foetal assessment, comfort and support during labour and childbirth, the four sages of labour, high-risk intrapartal patients, intrapartal complications and procedures; nursing care during the postpartal period - physiology of the postpartal period, normal postpartal period - physiology of the postpartal period, normal postpartal adaptation, postpartal complications, maternal care at home.