MANUAL OF HIGH RISK PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY, 2ND EDITION provides the practicing perinatal nurse in obstetric facilities with comprehensive in one accessible text. The text covers the must-knows of care screening for risk factors, providing preventive management, and intervening appropriately when problems arise. Various problems are presented in a consistent format that includes incidence, etiology, physiology, pathophysiology, and medical management with protocols for nurse practitioners. Collaborative problems and desired outcomes are also addressed. The book also discusses the role of the advance practice nurse implementing care. This completely revised edition includes. current AWHONN Standards of Practice and NANDA nursing diagnoses, a new chapter on complementary and alternative therapies, new content on multiple gestation including nutritional needs and preterm management, and new information on domestic violence, thrombophilias and other connective tissue disorders.
Grand Canyon Univ., Phoenix, AZ. Brandon/Hill Nursing List first-purchase selection (#251). Manual, for students and nurses, provides current and comprehensive coverage of the care of women and their families. Emphasizes health promotion, risk screening, and prevention of complications in pregnancy. Includes a new chapter on complementary therapies. P.E.: c1998. Softcover.
UNIT Ⅰ Physiologic Considerations Assessments and Integrative Therapies
1 Physiologic and Nutritional Adaptations to Pregnancy
2 General Nursing Assessment of the High Risk Expectant Family
3 Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
4 Perinatal Screening Diagnoses and Fetal Therapies
5 Integrative Therapies in Pregnancy and Childbirth
UNIT Ⅱ Psychologic Implications of a High Risk Pregnancy
6 Psychologic Adaptations
7 Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Grief
UNIT Ⅲ Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Considerations in Perinatal Nursing
8 Ethical Decision Making
9 Legal Issues and Risk Management
UNIT Ⅳ Health Disorders Complicating Pregnancy
10 Diabetes
11 Cardiac Disease
12 Renal Disease
13 Thrombophilias and Connective Tissue Disorders
14 Pulmonary Disease and Respiratory Distress
UNIT Ⅴ Complications in Pregnancy
15 Spontaneous Abortion
16 Ectopic Pregnancy
17 Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
18 Placental Abnormalities
19 Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy
20 Hemolytic Incompatibility
21 Hypertensive Disorders
22 Preterm Labor and Multiple Gestation
23 Premature Rupture of Membranes
24 Trauma
UNIT Ⅵ Teratogens and Social Issues Complicating Pregnancy
25 Sexually and Nonsexually Transmitted Genitourinary Infections
26 Substance Abuse
UNIT Ⅶ Alterations in the Mechanism of Labor
27 Labor Stimulation
28 Dysfunctional Labor
29 Prolonged Pregnancy
