Maternity Nursing

This work offers an introduction to maternity nursing, featuring new nutrition and weight gain information, material about new drugs and their uses, and explanations of the latest technology and equipment used in the delivery room.

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Substantially revised edition delivers essentials of quality maternity nursing care emphasizing self-care education with nurse as instructor. Illustrations, clinical situations followed by multiple choice questions and nursing care plans with current NANDA diagnoses make information accessible and enable practical application of theory. Detailed coverage of today's maternity nursing issues: AIDS, substance abuse, management of high-risk pregnancies and effects of diabetes on pregnancy.