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Book SynopsisPatricia A. Wieland Ladewig received her BS from the College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota; her MSN from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC; and her PhD in higher education administration from the University of Denver in Colorado. She served as an Air Force nurse and discovered her passion for teaching as a faculty member at Florida State University. Over the years, she has taught at several schools of nursing. In addition, she became a women's health nurse practitioner and maintained a part-time clinical practice for many years. In 1988, Dr. Ladewig became the first director of the nursing program at Regis College in Denver. In 1991, when the college became Regis University, she became academic dean of the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions. Under her guidance, the School of Nursing added a graduate program. In addition, the college added a School of Physical Therapy and a School of Pharmacy. In 2009 Dr. Ladewig became the Chief Ac
Table of Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS
Chapter 1 Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Care
Chapter 2 Family, Culture, and Complementary Health Approaches
Chapter 3 Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter 4 Conception and Fetal Development
PART 2: WOMEN'S HEALTH: THE REPRODUCTIVE YEARS
Chapter 5 Health Promotion for Women
Chapter 6 Common Gynecologic Problems
Chapter 7 Families with Special Reproductive Concerns
PART 3: PREGNANCY AND THE FAMILY
Chapter 8 Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
Chapter 9 Antepartum Nursing Assessment
Chapter 10 The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
Chapter 11 Maternal Nutrition
Chapter 12 Pregnancy in Selected Populations
Chapter 13 Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
Chapter 14 Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
Chapter 15 Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset
PART 4: BIRTH AND THE FAMILY
Chapter 16 Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
Chapter 17 Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
Chapter 18 The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
Chapter 19 Pharmacologic Pain Management
Chapter 20 Childbirth at Risk: Pre-Labor and Intrapartum Complications
Chapter 21 Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
Chapter 22 Birth-Related Procedures
PART 5: THE NEWBORN
Chapter 23 The Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
Chapter 24 Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
Chapter 25 Normal Newborn: Needs, Care, and Feeding
Chapter 26 The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
Chapter 27 The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors
PART 6: POSTPARTUM
Chapter 28 Postpartum Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
Chapter 29 The Postpartum Family: Early Care Needs and Home Care
Chapter 30 The Postpartum Family at Risk
