Includes appendix, glossary, reference directory and index. Integrating maternal-newborn nursing and pediatric nursing, this title also incorporates complementary care, pain assessment and management, nutrition and health promotion, patient education and communication, research and evidence-based practice, and assessment as the core of the nursing process.

Contents: Unit I Family-centered care: introductory concepts: Maternal, newborn and child health nursing -- Culture and the family -- Unit II The reproductive years and beyond: Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- health promotion for women -- Common gynecologic problems -- Special reproductive issues for families -- Unit III Pregnancy and family: Conception and fetal development -- Preparation and parenthood -- Physical and psychologic changes of pregnancy -- Antepartal nursing assessment -- The expectant family: needs and care -- Maternal nutrition -- Adolescent pregnancy --Pregnancy at risk -- Assessment of fetal well-being -- Unit IV: Birth and the family: Processes and stages of labor and birth -- Intrapartal nursing assessment -- The family in childbirth -- Pharmacologic pain relief -- Childbirth at risk -- Birth-related procedures -- Unit V The postpartal childbearing family and newborn: Postpartal adaptation and nursing assessment -- The postpartum family : needs and care -- The postpartal family at risk -- The physiologic responses of the newborn to birth -- Nursing assessment of the newborn -- Normal newborn : needs and care -- Newborn nutrition -- The newborn at risk : conditions present at birth -- The newborn at risk : birth-related stressors -- Home care of the postpartum family -- Growth and development -- Infant, child, and adolescent nutrition -- Pediatric assessment -- Social and environmental influences on the child -- Health promotion and health maintenance for the infant and young child -- Health promotion and health maintenance in the older child and adolescent -- Nursing considerations for the child and family in the community -- Nursing considerations for the hospitalized child --The child with life-threatening condition and end-of-life care -- Pain assessment and management in children -- The child with alterations in fluid -- The child with alterations in immune function -- The child with infections and communicable diseases -- The child with alterations in eye, ear, nose and throat function -- The child with alterations in respiratory function -- The child with alterations in cardiovascular function -- The child with alterations in hematologic function -- The child with alterations in cellular growth -- The child with alterations in gastrointestinal function -- The child with alterations in genetourinary function -- The child with alterations in neurologic function -- The child with alterations in cognitive and mental health function -- The child with alterations musculoskeletal function -- The child with alterations inendrocine function -- The child with alterations in skim integrity --