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Book SynopsisAbout our authors
Michele R. Davidson completed her ADN degree from Marymount University and worked in multiple women's health specialty areas, including postpartum, newborn nursery, high-risk nursery, labor and delivery, reproductive endocrinology, gynecology medical-surgical and oncology units as a registered nurse while obtaining a BSN from George Mason University. Dr. Davidson earned her MSN and a nurse-midwifery certificate at Case Western Reserve University and continued to work as a full-scope nurse-midwife for 16 years. She has delivered more than 1,000 babies during her career as a nurse-midwife. She completed her PhD in nursing administration and healthcare policy at George Mason University (GMU) and began teaching at GMU in 1999 while continuing in her role as a nurse-midwife. In 2018, Dr. Davidson earned an additional degree as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). She has an ongoing interest in women's mental health and focuse
Table of Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING
1. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
2. Families, Cultures, and Complementary Therapies
PART II: WOMEN'S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
3. Health Promotion
4. Family Planning
5. Commonly Occurring Infections
6. Women's Health Problems
7. Social Issues
8. Violence Against Women
PART III: HUMAN REPRODUCTION
9. Reproductive Physiology, Conception, and Fetal Development
10. Reproductive Genetics
PART IV: PREGNANCY
11. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
12. Antepartum Nursing Assessment
13. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
14. Maternal Nutrition
15. Pregnancy in Selected Populations
16. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
17. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
18. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset
PART V: LABOR AND BIRTH
19. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
20. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
21. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
22. Pharmacologic Pain Management
23. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Onset Complications
24. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
25. Birth-Related Procedures
PART VI: THE NEWBORN
26. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
27. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
28. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
29. Newborn Nutrition
30. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
31. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors
PART VII: POSTPARTUM
32. Postpartum Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
33. The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care
34. Home Care of the Postpartum Family
35. The Postpartum Family at Risk
36. Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family
Appendices
A. Common Abbreviations in Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing
B. Conversions and Equivalents
C. NANDA-I© 2017 Definitions and Defining Characteristics Used in This Text
