Maternity care

Author(s)

    • Branden, Pennie Sessler

Bibliographic Information

Maternity care

Pennie Sessler Branden, associate editor

(Nurse's clinical guide)

Springhouse, c1998

2nd ed

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-483) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work has been updated to include care for high-risk patients, current nutritional recommendations, illustrations of procedures, and more help for maternal home care.

Table of Contents

  • Overview of maternity care - components of comprehensive maternity care, reproductive anatomy and physiology
  • cursing care during the antepartal period -conception and foetal development, physiologic and psychosocial changes during normal pregnancy, the normal antepartal period, high-risk antepartal patients, antepartal complications
  • nursing care during the intrapartal period - physiology of labour and childbirth, foetal assessment, comfort and support during labour and childbirth, the four sages of labour, high-risk intrapartal patients, intrapartal complications and procedures
  • nursing care during the postpartal period - physiology of the postpartal period, normal postpartal period - physiology of the postpartal period, normal postpartal adaptation, postpartal complications, maternal care at home.

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