Nursing

For the Maternity or Obstetrics course in the nursing curriculum.

Maternal-newborn nurses serve as a crucial link between the healthcare system and childbearing families. Maternal-Newborn Nursing: A Family and Community-Based Approach, by Sally Olds, Marcia London, and Patricia Ladewig, known for its comprehensive coverage, warm and caring writing style, dynamic full color design and visual program has set the standard for maternal-newborn nursing textbooks. Now in a revised sixth edition, the text retains the hallmark style and features that have made it one of nursing's best-loved texts. In addition, new content and pedagogy have been incorporated that will prepare nursing students to be flexible, creative, and professional in the face of the trends toward home healthcare and community-based nursing, a growing multi-cultural population, and increasingly sophisticated technology.

• NEW - Two new chapters, Community-Based Teaching for Childbearing Families and Home Care of the Postpartal Family—Comprehensively address alternative healthcare delivery settings.

  • Helps prepare students for maternity care outside the traditional hospital setting.

• NEW - Community in Focus boxes—Describe innovative community- based nursing programs in operation throughout the U.S.

  • Helps students to visualize what maternity care in the community is really like.

• NEW - Home care and community-based nursing care are integrated throughout the text.

  • Allows the student to apply the principles of home care and community-based care in all aspects of maternity care.

• NEW - The Women's Health Unit—Retains comprehensive coverage of women's health and is now revised to focus more on ambulatory, community-based nursing care.

  • This focus further prepares students for the issues that are specific to those settings.

• NEW - Media Edition Includes Companion Website, Study Wizard CD-ROM. and slides.

  • Learning and teaching enhancements that are free upon adoption add extra value and dimension to the text.

• Critical Thinking in Practice Boxes—Use a case study format to encourage students to solve problems and make decisions based on what they've learned. Suggested responses are provided in the Appendix. Critical thinking questions scattered throughout the text pose questions for students to consider and discuss.

  • Encourages the students to really think about the content they have learned and apply it to nursing practice.

• Critical Pathways—Provide students with time-sequenced guides of anticipated care for healthy women and newborns and address the trend towards collaborative, outcome-driven managed care.

  • Teaches students how critical pathways effect nursing care of the maternity patient and family.

• Assessment Guides—Summarize assessment findings and help students make distinctions between normal findings and variations.

  • Gives students quick access to important assessment information needed for patient care and care planning.

• Research in Practice Boxes—Reflect the latest research findings for clinical practice.

  • Helps students with Evidence Based Practice and demonstrates practical applications of Research.

• Two new chapters, Community-Based Teaching for Childbearing Families and Home Care of the Postpartal Family—Comprehensively address alternative healthcare delivery settings.

  • Helps prepare students for maternity care outside the traditional hospital setting.

• Community in Focus boxes—Describe innovative community- based nursing programs in operation throughout the U.S.

  • Helps students to visualize what maternity care in the community is really like.

• Home care and community-based nursing care are integrated throughout the text.

  • Allows the student to apply the principles of home care and community-based care in all aspects of maternity care.

• The Women's Health Unit—Retains comprehensive coverage of women's health and is now revised to focus more on ambulatory, community-based nursing care.

  • This focus further prepares students for the issues that are specific to those settings.

• Media Edition Includes Companion Website, Study Wizard CD-ROM. and slides.

  • Learning and teaching enhancements that are free upon adoption add extra value and dimension to the text.

I. CONTEMPORARY MATERIAL-NEWBORN NURSING.

II. WOMEN'S HEALTH THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN.

III. HUMAN REPRODUCTION.

IV. PREGNANCY.

V. BIRTH.

VI. THE NEWBORN.

VII. POSTPARTUM.

APPENDICES.

Glossary.

Index.

Self-Care Guides.

Maternal/Newborn Nursing  [OTHER TITLES OF INTEREST]   (RN)

Companion Website - Olds, 6/E
Olds
©2000 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130167681 | ISBN-13: 9780130167682
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/olds/

Companion Website - Olds, 6/E
Olds
©2000 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130167681 | ISBN-13: 9780130167682
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/olds/

Companion Website - Olds, 6/E
Olds
©2000 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130167681 | ISBN-13: 9780130167682
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/olds/

CourseCompass Access Code Card, 6/E
Olds
©2000 | Prentice Hall | Paper | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0130431575 | ISBN-13: 9780130431578

Companion Website - Olds, 6/E
Olds
©2000 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130167681 | ISBN-13: 9780130167682
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/olds/

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