Preceded by Maternal child nursing care / Shannon E. Perry ... [et al.]. 4th ed. c2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit 1. Introduction to maternal nursing -- 21st century maternity nursing -- Community care: the family and culture -- Unit 2. Reproductive years -- Assessment and health promotion -- Reproductive System Concerns -- Infertility, contraception, and abortion -- Unit 3. Pregnancy -- Genetics, conception, and fetal development -- Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy -- Nursing care of the family during pregnancy -- Maternal and fetal nutrition -- Assessment of high risk pregnancy -- High risk perinatal care: preexisting conditions -- High risk perinatal care: gestational conditions -- Unit 4. Childbirth -- Labor and birth processes -- Pain management -- Fetal assessment during labor -- Nursing care of the family during labor and birth -- Labor and birth complications -- Unit 5. Postpartum period -- Maternal physiologic changes -- Nursing care of the family during the postpartum period -- Transition to parenthood -- Postpartum complications -- Unit 6. Newborn -- Physiologic adaptations of the newborn -- Nursing care of the newborn and family -- Newborn nutrition and feeding -- The high risk newborn --

Unit 7. Children, their families, and the nurse -- 21st century pediatric nursing -- Family, social, cultural, and religious influences on child health promotion -- Developmental and genetic influences on child health promotion -- Unit 8. Assessment of the child and family -- Communication, history, and physical assessment -- Pain assessment and management -- Unit 9. Health promotion and special health problems -- The infant and family -- The toddler and family -- The preschooler and family -- The school-age child and family -- The adolescent and family -- Unit 10. Special needs, illness, and hospitalization -- Chronic illness, disability, and end-of-life care -- Cognitive and sensory impairment -- Family-centered care of the child during illness and hospitalization -- Pediatric variations of nursing interventions -- Unit 11. Health problems of children -- Respiratory dysfunction -- Gastrointestinal dysfunction -- Cardiovascular dysfunction -- Hematologic and immunologic dysfunction -- Genitourinary dysfunction -- Cerebral dysfunction -- Endocrine dysfunction -- Integumentary dysfunction -- Musculoskeletal or articular dysfunction -- Neuromuscular or muscular dysfunction.