Optimize Maternal Newborn Nursing Care with a Comprehensive Guide

Delivering high-quality nursing care to pregnant women, new mothers, and newborns requires a thorough understanding of the complexities involved. The Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans, Third Edition is a trusted resource that equips students and practicing nurses with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide exceptional care.

Comprehensive Coverage of Nursing Care Plans

This authoritative guide features over 65 care plans that address common and high-risk patient situations, using the nursing process approach. The care plans cover:

• NIC interventions
• Collaborative problems
• Key nursing activities
• Signs and symptoms
• Diagnostic studies

The text takes a progressive approach, starting with generic care plans that apply to all patient situations, before moving on to more specific and complicated care plans.

New Features in the Third Edition

This updated edition includes:

• New rationales for nursing actions based on scientific principles
• A new breastfeeding care plan added to the normal newborn care chapter
• New information on obesity in pregnancy
• Evidence-based practice boxes highlighting current research
• Updated references and research
• New guidelines, practice changes, new standards, and evidence changes

Organization and Coverage

The text is organized around commonly encountered nursing diagnoses, ensuring that students and practitioners can easily find the information they need. The comprehensive coverage of normal pregnancy and common complications of pregnancy makes this guide an indispensable resource.

Individualized and collaborative care plans cover both actual and potential problems and conditions, ensuring that patients receive personalized and effective care.

By following the guidance outlined in this text, healthcare professionals can improve the quality and safety of patient outcomes, aligning with the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) mandate.

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Edition: 3rd Edition (December 23, 2014)
Language: English
Pages: 472
ISBN-10: 128403853X
ISBN-13: 978-1284038538