Pre-Owned Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care: Best Evidence-Based Practices

For the RN, this concise guide delivers all the practical information you need to care for women and newborns. It clearly explains what to say and what to do for a broad range of maternal-newborn challenges, including contraception, STDs, pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum care, domestic violence, and more. The straight-forward writing makes complex subjects easy to understand. A spiral binding with thumb tabs and a full-color design with illustrations will make it your reference of choice. AJN Book-of-the-Year Award-Winner! A comprehensive women's health reference guide, this "pocket brain" delivers all the practical, evidence-based clinical information you need to care for normal and high-risk pregnant mothers, newborns, and their families in diverse hospital and community settings. This book delves into other women's health issues that may impact the care of the mother-baby dyad, such as culture, substance abuse, family planning, violence against women and sexually transmitted infections. Perfect for students, new-to-practice, or expert practitioners, this guide provides concise, comprehensive assessments, easy-to-understand tables of lab work-ups and values, common treatment guidelines and the steps to implement and evaluate nursing care. As a special feature to assist with learning how to check a cervix, you can practice using the dilation milestone cut outs inside the book!