Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan: Pearson New (IE) 9e**

Pages: 1256, Specialty: Nursing, Publisher: Pearson, Publication Year: 2013, Cover: Paperback, Dimensions: 216x279x47mm For courses in maternal-child nursing, care of women and children, and women's health, for both 4-year BSN-level courses and selected ADN-level (2-year) programs. This is a family-focused text that provides comprehensive coverage of maternal-newborn nursing and women's health with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Accurate, readable, personal, and engaging, it reflects a deep understanding of pregnancy and birth as normal life processes, and of family members as partners in care. This edition includes a deeper discussion of childbirth at risk; four new nursing care plans; updated coverage of contraception, complementary/alternative therapies, and much more. New