Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan

Michele Davidson [COPY TO COME for Michele Davidson]   Marcia L. London Marcia L. London has been able to combine her two greatest passions by being both a nurse caring for children and families and a teacher for almost 35 years. She received her B.S.N. and school nurse certificate from Plattsburgh State University in Plattsburgh, New York. After graduation, she began her nursing career as a pediatric nurse at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City then moved to Pittsburgh, where she began her teaching career. Mrs. London accepted a faculty position at Pittsburgh’s Children’s Hospital Affiliate Program and received her M.S.N. in pediatrics as a clinical nurse specialist from the University of Pittsburgh. Mrs. London began teaching at Beth-El School of Nursing and Health Science in 1974 after opening the first intensive care nursery at Memorial Hospital of Colorado Springs. She has served in many administrative and faculty positions at Beth-El, including coordinator for nursing care of children for 32 years. Mrs. London maintains her clinical skills working in an urgent care and after-hours clinic and doing undergraduate pediatric clinical supervision. She obtained her postmaster’s neonatal nurse practitioner certificate in 1983 and subsequently developed the neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) program and the master’s NNP program at Beth-El. She is active nationally in neonatal nursing and was involved in the development of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Educational Program Guidelines. She has contributed 5 chapters to various neonatal nursing texts. Mrs. London is active in nurse practitioner education in general. She was involved in the revision of the Core Competency for Nurse Practitioners and Curriculum Guidelines for Nurse Practitioner Education, as a member of the Education Committee of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and participated as part of the Core Competency Validation Expert Panel. Mrs. London has also pursued her interest in college student learning by taking doctoral classes in  higher education administration and adult learning at the University of Denver in Colorado. She feels fortunate to be involved in the education of her future colleagues. Her teaching philosophy is that, with support, students can achieve more than they may initially believe they are capable of achieving. Mrs. London and her husband have two sons and one dog (Reilly, daughter by proxy). Her two sons, Craig and Matthew, are involved in computer informatics, and media arts and animation and are more than willing to give Mom helpful hints.   Patricia A. Wieland Ladewig Patricia A. Wieland Ladewig received her B.S. from the College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota. After graduation, she worked as a pediatric nurse before joining the U.S. Air Force. After completing her tour of duty, Dr. Ladewig relocated at Florida, where she accepted a faculty position at Florida State University. There she embraced teaching as her calling. Over the years, she taught at several schools of nursing while earning her M.S.N. in maternal-newborn nursing from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and her Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Denver in Colorado. In addition, she became a women’s health nurse practitioner and maintained a part-time clinical practice. In 1988 Dr. Ladewig became the first director of the nursing program at Regis College in Denver and., in 1991, when the college became Regis University, she became dean of the Rueckert-Hartman School for Health Professions. Under her guidance, the Department of Nursing has added a graduate program and the School  has added three departments: the Department of Physical Therapy, the Department of Health Services Administration and Management, and the Department of Health Care Ethics. Dr. Ladewig feels that teaching others to be excellent, caring nurses gives her the best of all worlds because it keeps her in touch with the profession she loves and enables her to help shape the future of the nursing profession. When not at work or writing textbooks, Pat and her husband, Tim, enjoy skiing, baseball games, and traveling. However their greatest pleasure comes from their family: son Ryan, his wife, Amanda, and grandson Reed; and son, Erik, his wife Kedri, and granddaughter Emma.

PART ONE: 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

 

PART TWO: WOMEN’S HEALTH

 

4        Women’s Health Across the Life Span 

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

 

PART THREE: HUMAN REPRODUCTION

 

10        The Reproductive System

11        Conception and Fetal Development

12        Reproductive Concerns: Infertility and Genetics

 

PART FOUR: PREGNANCY

 

13        Preparation for Parenthood

14        Physical and Psychological Changes of Pregnancy

15        Antepartal 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

 

PART FIVE: BIRTH

 

22        Processes and States of Labor and Birth

23        Intrapartal Nursing Assessment

24        The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care

25        Pain Management During Labor

26        Childbirth at Risk: The Intrapartal Period

27        Birth-Related Procedures

 

PART SIX: THE NEWBORN

 

28        Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth

29        Nursing Assessment of the Newborn

30        The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care

31        Newborn Nutrition

32        The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth

33        The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors

 

PART SEVEN: POSTPARTUM

 

34        Postpartal Adaptation and Nursing Assessment

35        The Postpartal Family: Needs and Care

36        Home Care of the Postpartal Family

37        Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family            ****NEW CHAPTER****

38        The Postpartal Family at Risk

 

APPENDICES