,Table of Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING
1. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
2. Families, Cultures, and Complementary Therapies
PART II: WOMEN’S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
3. Health Promotion
4. Family Planning
5. Commonly Occurring Infections
6. Women’s Health Problems
7. Social Issues
8. Violence Against Women
PART III: HUMAN REPRODUCTION
9. Reproductive Physiology, Conception, and Fetal Development
10. Reproductive Genetics
PART IV: PREGNANCY
11. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
12. Antepartum Nursing Assessment
,13. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
, 14. Maternal Nutrition
15. Pregnancy in Selected Populations
16. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
17. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
18. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset
PART V: LABOR AND BIRTH
19. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
20. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
21. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
22. Pharmacologic Pain Management
23. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Onset Complications
24. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
25. Birth-Related Procedures
PART VI: THE NEWBORN
26. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
27. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
28. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
29. Newborn Nutrition
30. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
31. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors
PART VII: POSTPARTUM
32. Postpartum Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
33. The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care
34. Home Care of the Postpartum Family
35. The Postpartum Family at Risk
36. Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family
Old’s Maternal-Newborn Nursing and Women’s Health, 11e
(Davidson/London/Ladewig)
Chapter 1 Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
1) The registered nurse is speaking to nursing apprentices about changes in maternal-
newborn care. One change is that self-care has gained wide acceptance with clients and
the healthcare community due to research findings that suggest that it has which effect?
A) Shortens newborn length of stay
B) Decreases use of home health agencies
C) Decreases healthcare costs
D) Decreases the number of emergency department visits
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING
1. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
2. Families, Cultures, and Complementary Therapies
PART II: WOMEN’S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
3. Health Promotion
4. Family Planning
5. Commonly Occurring Infections
6. Women’s Health Problems
7. Social Issues
8. Violence Against Women
PART III: HUMAN REPRODUCTION
9. Reproductive Physiology, Conception, and Fetal Development
10. Reproductive Genetics
PART IV: PREGNANCY
11. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
12. Antepartum Nursing Assessment
,13. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
, 14. Maternal Nutrition
15. Pregnancy in Selected Populations
16. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
17. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
18. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset
PART V: LABOR AND BIRTH
19. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
20. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
21. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
22. Pharmacologic Pain Management
23. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Onset Complications
24. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
25. Birth-Related Procedures
PART VI: THE NEWBORN
26. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
27. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
28. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
29. Newborn Nutrition
30. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
31. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors
PART VII: POSTPARTUM
32. Postpartum Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
33. The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care
34. Home Care of the Postpartum Family
35. The Postpartum Family at Risk
36. Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family
Old’s Maternal-Newborn Nursing and Women’s Health, 11e
(Davidson/London/Ladewig)
Chapter 1 Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
1) The registered nurse is speaking to nursing apprentices about changes in maternal-
newborn care. One change is that self-care has gained wide acceptance with clients and
the healthcare community due to research findings that suggest that it has which effect?
A) Shortens newborn length of stay
B) Decreases use of home health agencies
C) Decreases healthcare costs
D) Decreases the number of emergency department visits
