From the Book - Seventh edition.
Part 1. Maternity nursing
Unit 1. Introduction to maternity nursing
21st-century maternity nursing
The family, culture, and home care
Unit 2. Reproductive years
Assessment and health promotion
Reproductive system concerns
Infertility, contraception, and abortion
Genetics, conception, and fetal development
Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy
Nursing care of the family during pregnancy
Maternal and fetal nutrition
Assessment of high-risk pregnancy
High-risk perinatal care: preexisting conditions
High risk perinatal care: gestational conditions
Labor and birth processes
Maximizing comfort for the laboring woman
Fetal assessment during labor
Nursing care of the family during labor and birth
Labor and birth complications
Unit 5. Postpartum period
Postpartum physiologic changes
Nursing care of the family during the postpartum period
Physiologic and behavioral adaptations of the newborn
Nursing care of the newborn and family
Newborn nutrition and feeding
Part 2. Pediatric nursing
Unit 7. Children, their families, and the nurse
21st-century pediatric nursing
Social, cultural, religious, and family influences on child health promotion
Developmental and genetic influences on child health promotion
Unit 8. Assessment of the child and family
Communication and physical assessment of the child and family
Pain assessment and management in children
Unit 9. Health promotion and special health problems
The preschooler and family
The school-age child and family
Health promotion of the adolescent and family
Unit 10. Special needs, illness, and hospitalization
Impact of chronic illness, disability, or end-of-life care on the child and family
Impact of cognitive or sensory impairment on the child and family
Family-centered care of the child during illness and hospitalization
Pediatric nursing interventions and skills
Unit 11. Health problems of children
The child with respiratory dysfunction
The child with gastrointestinal dysfunction
The child with cardiovascular dysfunction
The child with hematologic or immunologic dysfunction
The child with genitourinary dysfunction
The child with cerebral dysfunction
The child with endocrine dysfunction
The child with musculoskeletal or articular dysfunction
The child with neuromuscular or muscular dysfunction
The child with integumentary dysfunction.
