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By Sharon Smith Murray, MSN, RN, C, Professor Emerita, Health Professions, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California and Emily Slone McKinney, MSN, RN, C, Baylor Healthcare System, Dallas, Texas
PART 1 Foundations for Nursing Care of the Childbearing Families
1 Clinical Judgment and the Nursing Process
2 Social, Cultural, and Ethical Issues
3 Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
4 Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing
PART 2 The Family Before Birth
5 Conception and Prenatal Development
6 Maternal Adaptations to Pregnancy
7 Antepartum Assessment, Care, and Education
8 Nutrition for Childbearing
9 Assessing the Fetus
10 Complications of Pregnancy
11 The Childbearing Family with Special Needs
PART 3 The Family During Birth
12 Processes of Birth
13 Pain Management During Childbirth
14 Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance
15 Nursing Care During Labor and Birth
16 Intrapartum Complications
PART 4 The Family Following Birth
17 Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care
18 Postpartum Maternal Complications
19 Critical Care Obstetrics
20 Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation
21 Assessment of the Normal Newborn
22 Care of the Normal Newborn
23 Infant Feeding
24 High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development
25 High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions
PART 5 Women’s Health Care
26 Family Planning
27 Infertility
28 Women’s Health
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