Maternity Nursing: An Introductory Text

Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text provides essential content for a solid foundation in maternity nursing. Its easy-to-follow body system approach progresses along a continuum from conception to adulthood, emphasizing prevention, early recognition, antepartum care, and the family. With its easy-to-read, clear writing style, it provides exactly the right depth and breadth of content for LPN/LVNs.

• Organization by simple-to-complex and health-to-illness continuum makes it easy to locate and access information, allowing you to see how complex content builds upon simpler concepts. Health-to-illness reflects the wellness basis for maternal and newborn care.
• Health Promotion and Family-Centered Care are the major themes throughout to reflect Healthy People 2010 objectives and the overall focus on wellness and illness prevention in health care.
• Pictorial of labor and birth includes 14 vivid photos that allow you to visualize the birth experience from start to finish.
• UNIQUE! Content on bioterrorism and the pregnant patient provides background information on nursing care in disaster situations.
• UNIQUE! CPR for the pregnant patient and infectious diseases acquired during pregnancy (Chapter 14).
• Skills following the nursing process are clearly presented in an Action/Rationale format and teach basic procedures used and performed by the LPN/LVN in maternity nursing settings.
• Fast Focus boxes present thought-provoking content on specific issues and topics.
• Nursing Tips include information on assessment, medications, growth and development, psychosocial issues, patient teaching, and health promotion.
• UNIQUE! Clinical Pathways appear where appropriate to reflect collaborative care.
• Complementary and Alternative Therapies (UNIQUE!), Women's Health, and Adolescent Childbearing and Parenting are located in separate chapters to help you better focus on each topic independently.
• UNIQUE! Traditional Healthy Latin American Diet Pyramid illustration with food availability, preferences, and cultural patterns from different countries provides a more culturally sensitive look at nutrition.
• Critical Thinking Activities at the end of each chapter encourage you to integrate information.
• Built-in Perforated Self-Assessment Workbook included at the back of the book features clinical situations, Internet activities, and multiple-choice questions.
• Nursing Care Plans reinforce the nursing process as applied to maternity nursing.

• Companion CD includes video clips of both normal and caesarian births, audio glossary and audio clips, 3-D animations, and maternity/pediatric patient teaching plans in English and Spanish.
• Sections on changes in clinical care recommendations, including vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), and pain relief in newborns provide the most current information available in delivery and newborn care.
• Additional Skills reflect greater hands-on clinical application of maternity nursing care.
• UNIQUE! MyPyramid illustrates the 2005 revised guidelines from the U. S. Department of Agriculture and provides healthy daily food choices for a nutrient-dense diet combined with adequate physical activity.