Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans / Edition 3

by Carol J. Green

Overview

Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans, Third Edition teaches students and practicing nurses how to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate care for pregnancy, delivery, recovery, abnormal conditions, and newborn care. Featuring more than 65 of the most common and high-risk care plans for nursing care using the nursing process approach, it includes NIC interventions, discussions on collaborative problems, key nursing activities, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic studies. Using a progressive approach, the text begins with generic care plans that address all patient situations regardless of the patient diagnosis or condition before moving on to more complicated and specific care plans. The Third Edition offers new rationales for nursing actions based on scientific principles, a new breastfeeding care plan added to the normal newborn care chapter, new information on obesity in pregnancy, evidence-based practice boxes throughout to highlight current research, and updated references and research. Also included are new guidelines, practice changes, new standards, and evidence changes. * Consistent organization based on commonly encountered nursing diagnoses * Comprehensive coverage of normal pregnancy and common complications of pregnancy * Individualized and collaborative care plans cover both actual and potential problems and conditions * Content in concert with the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) mandate to improve the quality and safety of patient outcomes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781284038538
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	12/23/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dr. Carol Green has been a nurse educator for over 28 years. Currently, she teaches in the graduate program at Graceland University School of Nursing in Independence, Missouri. She is the author of Critical Thinking in Nursing: Case Studies across the Curriculum, author of Maternal and Newborn Nursing Care Plans, co-editor of Phipps’s Medical Surgical Nursing, and co-author of the 2011 edition of Swearingen’s Manual of Medical-Surgical Nursing. She holds a PhD, MN and BSN from the University of Kansas, and holds the nurse educator certification from the National League for Nursing.Dr. Green served 20 years in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, retiring as a Captain. Her clinical experience includes maternity, perioperative, postanesthesia recovery, and critical care nursing in addition to her teaching experience. She has made numerous national presentations on critical thinking, test item writing, immunology and renal nursing.

Table of Contents

Section I Introduction
Chapter 1 How to Use This Book
Section II Generic Care Plans
Chapter 2 Nursing Care Plans (Generic)
Chapter 3 Collaborative Care Plans (Generic)
Section III Antepartum Care
Chapter 4 Normal Pregnancy
Chapter 5 Pregnancy Complicated by Medical and Other Complications
Chapter 6 Gestational Complications
Section IV Intrapartum Care
Chapter 7 Normal Intrapartum
Chapter 8 Intrapartum Complications
Section V Postpartum Care
Chapter 9 Normal Postpartum Care
Chapter 10 Postpartum Complications
Section VI Care of the Newborn
Chapter 11 Normal Newborn Care
Chapter 12 Neonatal Complications