Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 8th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show you how to provide safe care in the clinical setting. With easy-to-understand language, this updated text uses evidence-based guidelines and step-by-step instructions for assessments and interventions to help you quickly master key skills and techniques. Also emphasized is the importance of understanding family, communication, culture, patient teaching, and clinical decision making. Questions for the Next Generation NCLEXÂ(c) in the text help you prepare for the exam. Contributing content from known experts in the field of maternal and women's health. Unfolding case studies help you apply what you've learned to practice. Safety checks integrated into the content help you develop competencies related to safe nursing practice. Chapter summaries appear at the end of each chapter and help you review core content in each chapter while on the go. Patient teaching boxes provide teaching guidelines, including communication guides, directed at patients and families. Critical to Remember boxes highlight and summarize need-to-know information. Application of Nursing Process sections help you apply the nursing process to clinical situations. Updated! Drug guides list important indications, adverse reactions, and nursing considerations for the most commonly used medications. Procedure boxes provide clear instructions for performing common maternity skills with rationales for each step. UNIQUE! Therapeutic Communications boxes present realistic nurse-patient dialogues, identifying communication techniques and showing ways to respond when encountering communication blocks. Knowledge Check helps you assess your mastery of key content. Glossary provides definitions of all key terms. NEW! Critical Care Obstetrics chapter features the latest information on this vital topic. NEW! Clinical judgment content and questions for the Next Generation NCLEX® help you prepare for the exam and clinical practice.

Part 1: Foundations for Nursing Care of Childbearing Families1. Clinical Judgment and the Nursing Process2. Social, Cultural, and Ethical Issues3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on ChildbearingPart 2: The Family Before Birth5. Conception and Prenatal Development6. Adaptations to Pregnancy7. Antepartum Assessment, Care, and Education8. Nutrition for Childbearing9. Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Assessment During the Antepartum Period10. Complications of Pregnancy11. The Childbearing Family with Special NeedsPart 3: The Family During Birth12. Processes of Birth13. Pain Management During Childbirth14. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance15. Nursing Care During Labor and Birth16. Intrapartum ComplicationsPart 4: The Family Following Birth17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care18. Postpartum Complications 19. Critical Care Obstetrics20. Newborn: Processes of Adaptation21. Assessment of the Newborn22. Care of the Newborn23. Infant Feeding24. High Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development25. High Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital ConditionsPart 5: Women's Health Care26. Family Planning27. Infertility 28. Women's HealthAppendix A: Answers to Knowledge CheckAppendix B: Answers to Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination-Style QuestionsGlossaryIndex