Perinatal Nursing: A Comprehensive Guide to Effective Patient Care

Leave self-doubt behind and get fully grounded in effective perinatal care with the 5th edition of Perinatal Nursing, an official publication of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). This comprehensive resource offers expert guidelines and best practices for the full range of patient care issues, from cultural practices and pregnancy complications to newborn assessments and nutrition.

Stay Current with Evidence-Based Support

This must-have resource provides evidence-based support for both perinatal and labor and delivery nursing, helping you strengthen and upgrade your skills and expertise. With NEW and expanded content on:

• Pregnancy complications: bleeding, preterm labor and birth, diabetes, cardiac disease, pulmonary complications, multiple gestation, and obesity
• Newborn nutrition: infant feeding decisions, breastfeeding benefits, nutritional components, and preterm milk and lactation
• Patient safety and maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States: instructions on making maternity units safer based on current evidence and care bundles

Clinical Conditions and Practical Guidance

This comprehensive guide includes evidence-based information on clinical conditions, such as obesity, and provides practical guidance and current best practices for areas including:

• Perinatal patient safety and quality care
• Integrating patient cultural beliefs and practices into perinatal care
• Physiologic changes of pregnancy
• Antenatal care
• Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
• Pregnancy complications
• Multiple gestation
• Labor and birth
• Fetal assessment
• Managing pain during labor
• Postpartum care
• Newborn care: adaptation to extrauterine life, physical assessment, and nutrition
• Common neonatal complications

Expert Authorship and Ideal for Certification

All chapters are written by expert nurse clinicians and researchers to support positive perinatal outcomes. This resource is ideal for those seeking certification in obstetrics nursing (RNC-OB) and maternal newborn nursing (RN-MNN, RNC-LRN). It’s also a perfect on-the-job resource and review text for all perinatal nurses, maternal units, and students.

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About the Clinical Editors

Meet the expert editors behind this authoritative resource:

• Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN
• Patricia A. Creehan, MSN, RNC
• Nancy O’Brien-Abel, MSN, RNC
• Cheryl K. Roth, PhD, WHNP-BC, RNC-OB, RNFA
• Annie J. Rohan, PhD, RN, NNP-BC, CPNP-PC, FAANP

Product Details:

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Edition: 5th
• Publication Date: November 12, 2020
• Language: English
• Pages: 743
• ISBN-10: 1975174534
• ISBN-13: 978-1975174538