Maternal-child nursing / Emily Slone McKinney [and others]

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction to maternal-child health nursing -- Foundations of maternity women's health, and child health nursing -- The nurse's role in maternity, women's health, and pediatric nursing -- The childbearing and child-rearing family -- Health promotion for the developing child -- Health promotion for the infant -- Health promotion during early childhood -- Health promotion for the school-age child -- Health promotion for the adolescent -- Heredity and environmental influences on development -- Maternity nursing care -- Management of fertility and infertility -- Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- Conception and prenatal development -- Physiologic adaptations to pregnancy -- Psychosocial adaptations to pregnancy -- Nutrition for childbearing -- Prenatal diagnostic tests -- Giving birth -- Intrapartum fetal surveillance -- Pain management for childbirth -- Nursing care during obstetric procedures -- Postpartum adaptations -- The normal newborn : adaptation and assessment -- The normal newborn : nursing care -- Newborn feeding -- The childbearing family with special needs -- The pregnant woman with complications -- The woman with an intrapartum complication -- The woman with a postpartum complication -- The high-risk newborn : problems related to gestational age and development -- The high-risk newborn : acquired and congenital conditions -- Women's health care

Pediatric nursing care -- Communicating with children and families -- Physical assessment of children -- Emergency care of the child -- The ill child in the hospital and other care settings -- The child with a chronic condition or terminal illness -- Principles and procedures for nursing care of children -- Medicating infants and children -- Pain management for children -- The child with an infectious disease -- The child with an immunologic alteration -- The child with a fluid and electrolyte alteration -- The child with a gastrointestinal alteration -- The child with a genitourinary alteration -- The child with a respiratory alteration -- The child with a cardiovascular alteration -- The child with a hematologic alteration -- The child with cancer -- The child with an integumentary alteration -- The child with a musculoskeletal alteration -- The child with an endocrine or metabolic alteration -- The child with a neurologic alteration -- Psychosocial disorders in children and families -- The child with an intellectual or developmental disability -- The child with a sensory alteration -- Appendixes. A. Laboratory values in pregnant and nonpregnant women and in the newborn -- B. Use of drug and botanical preparations during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and women's health -- C. Recommendations for preventive pediatric health care -- D. Growth charts -- E. Blood pressure levels by age and height