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Maternity & women's health care /

Maternity & women's health care / edited by Deitra L. Lowdermilk, Shannon E. Perry, , Kitty Cashion, Kathryn Rhodes Alden and Ellen F. Olshansky - 11th - xxiv, 973 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Preceded by Maternity & women's health care / [edited by] Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk ... [et al.]. 10th ed. c2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

21st Century maternity and women's health nursing -- Community care: the family and culture -- Nursing and genomics -- Assessment and health promotion -- Violence against women -- Reproductive system concerns -- Sexually transmitted and other infections -- Contraception and abortion -- Infertility -- Problems of the breast -- Structural disorders and neoplasms of the reproductive system -- Conception and fetal development -- Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy -- Nursing care of the family during pregnancy -- Maternal and fetal nutrition -- Labor and birth processes -- Maximizing comfort for the laboring woman -- Fetal assessment during labor -- Nursing care of the family during labor and birth -- Postpartum physiologic changes -- Nursing care of the family during the postpartum period -- Transition to parenthood -- Physiologic and behavioral adaptations of the newborn -- Nursing care of the newborn and family -- Newborn nutrition and feeding -- Assessment of high risk pregnancy -- Hypertensive disorders -- Hemorrhagic disorders -- Endocrine and metabolic disorders -- Medical-surgical disorders -- Mental health disorders and substance abuse -- Labor and birth complications -- Postpartum complications -- Nursing care of the high risk newborn -- Acquired problems of the newborn -- Hemolytic disorders and congenital anomalies -- Perinatal loss, bereavement, and grief.

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Maternity nursing.
Pregnancy--Complications.
Gynecologic nursing.
Women's health services.
Maternal-Child Nursing.
Genital Diseases, Female--nursing.
Neonatal Nursing--methods.
Obstetric Nursing--methods.
Pregnancy Complications--nursing.
Women's Health.

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