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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. She 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. Dr. Davidson 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
- Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
- Families, Cultures, and Complementary Therapies
PART II: WOMEN'S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
- Health Promotion
- Family Planning
- Commonly Occurring Infections
- Women's Health Problems
- Social Issues and Violence Affecting Women
PART III: HUMAN REPRODUCTION
- Reproductive Physiology, Conception, and Fetal Development
- Reproductive Genetics
PART IV: PREGNANCY
- Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
- Antepartum Nursing Assessment
- The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
- Maternal Nutrition
- Pregnancy in Selected Populations
- Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
- Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
- Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset
PART V: LABOR AND BIRTH
- Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
- Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
- The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
- Pharmacologic Pain Management
- Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Onset Complications
- Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
- Birth-Related Procedures
PART VI: THE NEWBORN
- Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
- Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
- The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
- Newborn Nutrition
- The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
- The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors
- Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
- The Postpartum Family: Early Needs and Home Care
- The Postpartum Family at Risk
APPENDICES
- Common Abbreviations in Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing
- Conversions and Equivalents
Glossary
