Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health

In this issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, Guest Editors Nathan Blue and Bob Silver bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Fetal Growth. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as placental function and physiology of fetal...

AWHONN's Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 6th Edition, the definitive resource for nurses taking certification examinations, provides the most up-to-date, accurate information available on today's maternal-newborn nursing practice. Its...

Make sure you fully understand how to care for women and newborns! Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 7th Edition integrates essential maternity information into the overall continuum of nursing care to show how to provide safe...

Written for labor and delivery nurses, nurse midwives, and maternal-child and family birth nurses, Essentials of Fetal and Uterine Monitoring, Fifth Edition expertly presents how to identify fetal wellbeing and the signs of fetal and uterine compromise...

Use this set of colorful cards to master concepts in maternity, women's health, and pediatrics! With 65 cartoons covering key topics, Mosby's OB/Peds & Women's Health Memory NoteCards: Visual, Mnemonic, and Memory Aids for Nurses uses humor and...

Awarded third place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Award in Maternal-Child Health/Prenatal Nursing/Childbirth Category Created specifically for today's LPN/LVN students, Introductory Maternity & Pediatric Nursing, 5th Edition, delivers clearly written,...

Research Recipes for Midwives A 16-step guide to writing a research proposal Development of a research question, identification of a research method, and working through the steps to build a sample are complex and hugely important stages in the career of...

• Provides a concise overview for nursing and midwifery students new to EBP, from finding research, to understanding it, critically evaluating it, using it to inform practice and starting research yourself. • Chapters are easy to understand and relate to...

Prenatal and Postnatal Care Situate pregnancy in the emotional and physical life of the whole person with this bestselling guide Prenatal and postnatal care are important and dynamic areas in healthcare research and practice. The needs of the...

The first book to teach physical assessment techniques based on evidence and clinical relevance.Grounded in an empirical approach to history-taking and physical assessment techniques, this text for advanced health care providers and students focuses on...

Children have the right to be safe in our world and we all have a responsibility to ensure this happens. Midwives play a key role in enhancing relationships between a child and its parents for future well being. The book explores how the pressures...

Master key concepts and apply them to your nursing practice! Corresponding to the chapters in Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing, 6th Edition, by Gloria Leifer, RN, MA, CNE, this study guide reinforces your understanding of essential concepts...

LPN focused. Easy to read. Resource rich. Finally! A new OB/peds textbook that focuses on what LPNs must know. You'll find just the right depth and breadth of coverage with a focus on the knowledge and skills that LPNs need to know to practice safely. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729544559Author Allison CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Elsevier AustraliaPublisher Elsevier Australia

An important analysis of the difference class makes in reproductive health choices Can you run a marathon, drink coffee, eat fish, or fly on a plane while pregnant? Such questions are just the tip of the iceberg for how most pregnant women’s bodies are...

An important analysis of the difference class makes in reproductive health choices Can you run a marathon, drink coffee, eat fish, or fly on a plane while pregnant? Such questions are just the tip of the iceberg for how most pregnant women’s bodies are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729544764Author Sally PairmanImprint Elsevier AustraliaPublisher Elsevier Australia

Supporting a Physiologic Approach to Pregnancy and Birth: A Practical Guide provides an overview of current evidence and a range of practical suggestions to promote physiologic birth within the United States healthcare system. Presenting the latest...

For many bereaved parents, the care provided by health professionals at birth - from midwives to antenatal teachers - has a crucial effect on their response to a loss or death. This interactive workbook is clearly applied to practice and has been...

The book examines the major issues in perinatal clinical psychology with the presence of theoretical information and operational indications, through a biopsychosocial approach. The multiplicity of scientific information reported makes this book both...

In this book the authors review initiatives in improving the quality of care for family planning in India and bring them to the broader forum of policy-level discussions. The global Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) framework argues for voluntary...

This salient resource offers clinicians a comprehensive multi-tiered framework for identifying, addressing, and reducing food insecurity among children and their families. Reinforcing the importance of food insecurity as a key social determinant of...

The number of working mothers in the workforce is growing, but few businesses provide lactation support in the workplace and employment has a profound effect on breastfeeding. A woman entering employment is three times more likely to stop breastfeeding...

Focusing on the mother's experience of pain and her contribution to its control, this accessible text covers the background to historical and scientific understanding of pain and considers methods of researching and measuring pain. Now in its 2nd...

A unique and innovative resource for conducting ethnographic research in health care settings, Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health provides a combination of ethnographic theory and an international selection of empirical case studies. ...

This concise guide offers a comprehensive step-by-step framework for midwifery students to learn about all aspects of the newborn infant physical examination (NIPE), a screening assessment completed on all babies between 6 and 72 hours of age. The...

Evidence-based research underscores the importance of breastfeeding for the healthy development of late preterm infants, yet significant challenges can impede successful breastfeeding. This is a groundbreaking, problem-solving guide to the most effective...

The clinically oriented guide to nursing care during childbirth is distinguished by its strong focus on evidence-based practice as well as its engaging style and user-friendly format. It reviews the nursing process from admission to delivery focusing on...

Delivers the latest evidence-based guidelines you need to ensure excellence in clinical practice!Now in its Twelfth Edition, this authoritative resource continues to represent the gold standard for nursing management of common gynecological conditions...

Describes how nursing professionals can mitigate the maternal health crisis through advocacy and improved practice. This graduate-level nursing text and professional clinical reference is the first to comprehensively address the escalating crisis in U.S...

First Edition Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! First Edition Second Place AJN Book-of-the-Year Award Winner in Maternal and Child Health! With more women than ever seeking obstetric triage and emergency services in obstetric triage units, obstetric...

Written by two distinguished leaders in midwifery, this text provides a comprehensive examination of an effective model of prenatal care associated with improved health outcomes and reduced costs. This book describes basic tenets of the Centering...

This second edition of a groundbreaking book is substantially revised to deliver the foundation for an evidence-based model for best practices in midwifery a model critical to raising the United States current standing as the bottom-ranking country for...

Written by two of the profession's most prominent midwifery leaders, this authoritative history of midwifery in the United States, from the 1600s to the present, is distinguished by its vast breadth and depth. The book spans the historical evolution of...

The first book to present the history, ideas, life and works of Chinese midwives and birth attendants, this volume seeks to encapsulate and explain the changing ideas about the practice of midwifery in China. Using participant observations and...

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in...

This is the only book to present the evidence-based policies and procedures that medical and non-medical staff can use to develop Mother-Friendly Care in their facilities. The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI), developed by the Coalition for...

Drawing on years of midwifery experience of waterbirth, this collection of stories, based on real-life events, illuminates a rewarding way of birth and emphasises the theoretical knowledge, skills, understanding, and resilience needed to practice well. ...

Conflict resolution and promotion of regional cooperation in South Asia has assumed a new urgency in the aftermath of the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, and underlined by the outbreak of fighting in Kargil in 1999, full mobilization on the...

Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive introduces an expanded view of human development and health, which begins before conception and moves through pregnancy, early childhood and adulthood.This book is a call for all prenatal and perinatal...