Nursing care of the childbearing family. /
Laurie N. Sherwen, Mary Ann Scoloveno, Carol Toussie Weingarten
- 2nd ed.
- New Delhi: Prentice Hall, 1995.
- xxviii, 1219p.: ills.; 29cm
Includes index.
Contents: The childbearing family: Trends in nursing care of the childbearing family -- Social issues in the care of women of childbearing age -- Clinical reasoning and childbearing family -- Family theory and the childbearing family -- Theories for understanding the childbearing family -- Women's health in the childbearing years -- Human reproduction -- Problems in human reproduction -- Sexuality -- Planning a family -- Nutrition during pregnancy -- Growth and development of the embryo/fetus -- The first trimester of pregnancy: Assessment sand management of physiologic, psychologic and sociocultural changes -- The second trimester of pregnancy: Assessment and management of physiologic, pschlogic and socio-cultural changes -- The third trimester of pregnancy: Assessment and management of physiologic, pschlogic and socio-cultural changes -- Educational preparation for childbirth and parenting the physiology of labor and delivery -- Psychologic and socio-cultural dimensions of the intrapartum family -- Assessment of the family during labor and delivery -- Pain management during labor and delivery -- Care of the family during labor and delivery -- The cesarean experience -- The postpartum period: Physiologic and psychologic changes -- The postpartum period: Assessment and nursing care of the family -- The normal newborn -- Assessment of the neonate -- Nursing care of the neonate and infant -- The childbearing family at risk: The perinatal perspective -- Psycho-social concerns of the high-risk childbearing family -- Age-related concerns in pregnancy -- Maternal risk in the first trimester -- Maternal risk in the second and third trimesters -- Maternal risk in the postpartum period -- The neonate at risk -- Risk related to gestational age and birth-weight -- Home care of the childbearing family