Publisher's Synopsis
This popular text features comprehensive family centred coverage of perinatal and women's health nursing. The book's success relies on its nursing process framework, normal to complications organization, self-care focus, emphasis on cultural aspects and integration of current nursing research. With a contemporary new design this new edition features: a new chapter on home care and one on women's health promotion and screening; a new colour insert includes photographs of childbirth and newborn assessment; expands content on common gynaecological problems; presents chapter reviews, including key concepts, key terms, critical thinking exercises, and questions for nursing research to help students evaluate and apply what they have learned; and includes case studies that follow client care through the five steps of the nursing process and lead into nursing care plans.;A free Quick Reference for Maternity and Gynecologic Nursing comes shrink-wrapped with each text, and also available is an Instructor's Resource Manual and Test Bank, 50 two-colour acetates, and a Student Learning Guide.
