Description
Book SynopsisThis book is intended to facilitate the care planning process for nursing students and nurses working with maternal and newborn clients. Each nursing care plan includes nursing diagnosis and its definition, etiological factors, assessment data, characteristics of problems, expected outcomes, nursing interventions and evidence-based rationales, and evaluation.
It compiles all possible nursing diagnoses and care plans for:
- Mothers in different stages of normal pregnancy, spontaneous labour, delivery and post delivery periods.
- Pregnant women with associated medical problems and gestational complications.
- Women who go through spontaneous and assisted pregnancy complications.
- Newborns following normal birth process and in uncomplicated neonatal life.
- Babies following assisted births and experiencing neonatal health problems.
- Neonates who are preterm, post-term and with growth deviations.
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This book is designed to assist students of undergraduate and postgraduate nursing courses as well as nursing professionals practicing maternal-newborn nursing.
Table of ContentsUNIT 1 Planning Nursing Care
1. Nursing Process
UNIT 2 Pregnancy/Antepartum Period
2. Genetic Counseling
3. Trimesters
4. High-risk Pregnancy
5. Cardiac Conditions in Pregnancy
6. Pregnancy-induced Hypertension
7. Diabetes Mellitus: Pre-pregnancy/Gestational
8. Prenatal Hemorrhage
9. Prenatal Infection
10. Premature Dilation of Cervix (Incompetent/Dysfunctional Cervix)
11. Spontaneous Termination of Pregnancy/Abortion
12. Elective Termination
13. Preterm Labor/Prevention of Delivery
14. Pregnant Adolescent
15. Prenatal Substance Abuse/Dependence
UNIT 3 Intrapartum Period
16. Labor Stage I: Latent Phase
17. Labor Stage I: Active Phase
18. Labor Stage I: Transition Phase (Deceleration)
19. Labor Stage II: Expulsion of Fetus
20. Labor Stage III: Placental Expulsion
21. Dysfunctional Labor/Dystocia
22. Labor Induction/Augmentation
23. Cesarean Delivery
24. Precipitous Labor/Delivery
25. Intrapartal Hypertension
26. Intrapartal Diabetes Mellitus
UNIT 4 Postpartum Period
27. Labor Stage IV: First Four Hours Following Delivery of the Placenta
28. Four Hours to Two Days Postpartum
29. Care Following Cesarean Delivery (4 Hours to 3 Days)
30. Client at 24 to 48 Hours Following Discharge
31. Client at One Week Following Discharge
32. Postpartal Hemorrhage
33. Puerperal Infection
34. Postpartal Diabetes Mellitus
35. Puerperal Thrombophlebitis
36. Parents of Newborns with Special Needs
37. Perinatal Loss
UNIT 5 Newborn Period
38. Neonate: First Hour of Life
39. Neonate at Two Hours to Two Days of Age
40. Neonate at Two Days to One Week Following Discharge
41. Preterm Infant
42. Newborn Having Hyperbilirubinemia
43. Neonate of an HIV-Positive Mother
44. Deviations in Growth Patterns
45. Infant of an Addicted Mother
46. Neonatal Circumcision
Bibliography
Index
