Superpower your maternal-neonatal skills, with the fully updatedMaternal-Neonatal Facts Made Incredibly Quick!®, 3rd Edition, the indispensable pocket guide that offers at-your-fingertips answers on maternal-neonatal nursing essentials.
Flip quickly to the section on which you need guidance with the help of brightly colored tabs. Then scan the quick-read bulleted text for vital direction on the four stages of labor, interpreting stress test results, Lamaze techniques, interpreting lab values, and more. This handy quick-reference guide offers both classroom and on-the-unit support for nursing students, nurses, and all maternal-neonatal healthcare professionals.
Use this reference for maternal-neonatal assessments, tests, monitoring, and care, with these featues:
- NEWand updated bulleted content with quick-read tables, charts, and drawings
- Wipeable laminated pagesthat make notetaking and erasing quick and easy
- Pocket-sized, spiral-bound formatthat offers instant access to expert nursing guidance
- Dozens of colorful diagrams, charts, and images that offer practical direction for areas including:
- Classifying fetal presentation
- Distinguishing between true and false labor
- Noting systemic changes in the active phase of labor
- Assessing glucose challenge values
- Assessing the three categories of pregnancy signs
- Distinguishing the signs and symptoms of separation between the placenta and uterine wall
- Patient teaching </ul/liLI>Easy-to-follow definitions and guidance onareas including:
- Internal and external fetal monitoring—reading a fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring strip and identifying FHR patterns
- Potential complications of medication administration
- Comfort measures in labor
- Primary indications for cesarean birth—maternal, placental, and fetal
- Understanding lacerations and umbilical cord prolapse
- Prenatal care - taking an obstretric and medical history, adaptations to pregnancy, fundal height, Leopold’’s maneuvers, fetal development, cultural practices, and more
- Intrapartum - spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, female pelvis, labor, cervical effacement and dilation, drug administration, cesarean birth, and more
- Postpartum - postpartum phases, fundal palpation, uterine involution, postpartal hemorrhage, pulmonary embolism, maternal self-care, lactation, and more
- Neonatal - neonatal flow algorithm, physiology and assessment, Apgar score, sutures and fontanels, infections, HIV, oxygen therapy, circumcision, neonatal labs, and more </ul/LI>
Stephanie C. Evans, PhD, APRN, CPNP, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.
