Maternity and u0026 Women’s Health Care by Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk

,Maternity & Women’s Health Care

THIRTEENTH EDITION



Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC-E, PhD, FAAN
Clinical Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Kitty Cashion, RN-BC, MSN
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of
Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis,
Tennessee

Kathryn Rhodes Alden, EdD, MSN, RN
Associate Professor, Retired School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Ellen F. Olshansky, PhD, RN, WHNP-E, NC-E, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and Founding Director,
Program in Nursing Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California

Shannon E. Perry, RN, PhD, ANEF, FAAN
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
California

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, Table of Contents
Cover image

Title page

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Copyright

About The Authors

Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk

Kitty Cashion

Kathryn Rhodes Alden

Ellen F. Olshansky

Shannon E. Perry

Contributors

List Of Reviewers

Preface

Approach

Features

Organization

Teaching/Learning Package

Acknowledgments
PART 1: Introduction to Maternity and Women’s Health Care

1. 21st-Century Maternity and Women’s Health Nursing

Advances In The Care Of Mothers And Infants