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.

Unit 1 Foundations for Contemporary Practice 1 Perinatal and Women's Health Nursing by Karen A. Stevens 2 2 The Family, a Unit of Care by Irene M. Bobak 20 3 Culture and Ethnicity by Joyce Newman Giger and Ruth E. Davidhizar and Susan C. Wieczorek 42 4 Legal and Ethical Issues by Cheryl Hall Harris 70 5 Nursing Research in Maternity and Gynecologic Care by Shannon E. Perry 86 6 Reproduction and Sexuality by Irene M. Bobak 100 Unit 2 Normal Pregnancy 7 Genetics, Conception, and Fetal Development by Ruth Holmes Ferguson 152 8 Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy by Irene M. Bobak 188 9 Maternal and Fetal Nutrition by Mary Courtney Moore 212 10 Family Dynamics of Pregnancy by Irene M. Bobak 242 11 First Trimester by Irene M. Bobak 266 12 Second Trimester by Irene M. Bobak 298 13 Third Trimester by Irene M. Bobak and Jane R. Starn 320 Unit 3 Normal Childbirth 14 Essential Factors and Processes of Labor by Irene M. Bobak 350 15 Pharmacologic Management of Discomfort by Irene M. Bobak 372 16 Fetal Monitoring by Susan M. Tucker 396 17 First Stage of Labor by Joyce H. Vogler 422 18 Second and Third Stages of Labor by Joyce H. Vogler 468 19 Fourth Stage of Labor by Joyce H. Vogler 504 Unit 4 Normal Newborn More...