| Nurses today are client advocates and educators who play a central role in a family s experience ofbirth. As women s choices about childbirth continue toexpand, so do the responsibilities and commitment ofthe nurse.Focus on Client Teaching andthe Nursing ProcessWe continue to feel strongly that one of the primary rolesof the nurse is that of client teacher--helping people ac-quire the information and skills they need to meet theirown needs. This is why we ve again chosen to placestrong emphasis on teaching throughout this text. Wealso firmly believe that it is essential for nurses to usethe nursing process to provide high-level, effective nurs-ing care. These two loci--client teaching and the nurs-ing process--form the basis of the book s organizationand result in what we believe to be a text that is as rele-vant and useful to practicing nurses as it is to nursingstudents.Why an "Essentials" Book?In today s varied nursing curricula, the course in mater-nal-newborn nursing can range in length from 4 to 13 weeks--depending on the type of program and the availability of clinical facilities, among other factors, fu response to requests from those nurse educators who do not have a full 12 to 15 weeks to cover this content, we developed Essentials of Maternal-Newborn Nursing as an alternative to our best-selling, more detailed and com- prehensive Maternal-Newborn Nursing. This Essentials text was first published in 1986 with the intention of meeting the demand for a shorter, more condensed ver- sion focused on the essence of safe, thoughtful nursing care. With our revision in 1990, we updated and ex- panded content based on extensive student and instruc- tor review. In this, the third edition of our Essentials text, not only have we updated content to make the book as current and accurate as possible, but we ve further re- fined our definition of the "essentials" through contin |
内容加载中，请稍后...
商品评论（0条）