Maternal Infant Nursing Care Plans

Explains how to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate care for pregnancy, delivery, recovery, abnormal conditions, and newborn care. Features more than 65 of the most common and high-risk care plans for nursing care using the nursing process approach, this text includes NIC interventions, discussions on collaborative problems, key nursing activities, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic studies. --From publisher description.

This is an easy-to-use reference with nursing care plans for healthy clients during pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum, and the newborn periods. Additional diagnoses and plans are included for common perinatal and neonatal complications. The user can easily design a client-specific plan of care with interventions that are based on the latest research and current practice.

Maternal Newborn Nursing Care Plans provides students with a necessary care plan reference that includes a strong nursing process approach and comprehensive coverage of maternity nursing content. The goal of the book is to provide interventions for both collaborative problems and nursing diagnoses. It emphasizes the use of standardized nursing languages, including NANDA diagnoses, NIC interventions, and NOC outcomes in each care plan. Includes over 65 of the most common normal and high risk care plans associated with maternal newborn nursing care. UNIQUE! Lists the collaborative problems or potential complications for every condition covered. Incorporates a consistent format presentation for each content area that includes: 1) Focus on Collaborative Practice - definition, etiology, physical findings, diagnostic studies; 2) Collaborative Problems - list of collaborative problems and focus assessments; 3) Nursing Diagnosis Care Plans - list of each diagnosis, care plan for each nursing diagnosis that links NANDA, NIC, and NOC; and 4) Teaching/Collaborative Activities. Emphasizes collaboration throughout to show students how to use standardized approaches such as Critical Paths and individualized approaches (Nursing Care Plans) focusing on individualized care much the same as nurses do in practice. UNIQUE! Includes Care Plans from a wellness perspective to provide a greater emphasis on health promotion and prevention and to provide students with the necessary tools for care for areas other than just the problem. Integrates Home Care for certain interventions to stress the importance of follow-up care. Integrates Patient Teaching Interventions for certain diagnoses to help students understand the importance of teaching the patient self-care.

This reference is a compilation of care plans for the most commonly encountered clinical problems a nurse is likely to encounter. Written by practicing nurses for students and practitioners, this book serves as both a valuable reference and learning resource.

A better way to learn maternal and newborn nursing! This unique presentation provides tightly focused maternal-newborn coverage in a highly structured text

Master the essentials of maternity and pediatric nursing with this comprehensive, all-in-one text! Maternal Child Nursing Care, 7th Edition covers the issues and concerns of women during their childbearing years and children during their developing years. It uses a family-centered, problem-solving approach to patient care, with guidelines supported by evidence-based practice. New to this edition is an emphasis on clinical judgment skills and a new chapter on children with integumentary dysfunction. Written by a team of experts led by Shannon E. Perry and Marilyn J. Hockenberry, this book provides the accurate information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the Next Generation NCLEX-RN® examination. Focus on the family throughout the text emphasizes the influence of the entire family in health and illness. Expert authors of the market-leading maternity and pediatric nursing textbooks combine to ensure delivery of the most accurate, up-to-date content. Information on victims of sexual abuse as parents and human trafficking helps prepare students to handle these delicate issues. Nursing Alerts highlight critical information that could lead to deteriorating or emergency situations. Guidelines boxes outline nursing procedures in an easy-to-follow format. Evidence-Based Practice boxes include findings from recent clinical studies. Emergency Treatment boxes describe the signs and symptoms of emergency situations and provide step-by-step interventions. Atraumatic Care boxes teach students how to manage pain and provide competent care to pediatric patients with the least amount of physical or psychological stress. Community Focus boxes emphasize community issues, provide resources and guidance, and illustrate nursing care in a variety of settings. Patient Teaching boxes highlight important information nurses need to communicate to patients and families. Cultural Considerations boxes describe beliefs and practices relating to pregnancy, labor and birth, parenting, and women’s health. Family-Centered Care boxes draw attention to the needs or concerns of families that students should consider to provide family-centered care.

Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans, 2nd edition, provides detailed information on caring for clients during pregnancy, labor and delivery, the postpartum period, and the newborn/infant period. All the information needed to develop specific and effective nursing care plans for clients in the maternal and newborn periods is included. Each care plan presents information to guide users in developing comprehensive individualized nursing care plans based on solid scientific understanding of the physiological, psychological, and social events surrounding childbirth. Care plans solicit specific client data and prompt the user to individualize the interventions, consider cultural relevance, and evaluate the client's individual response.