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Maternal and Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing and Childrearing Family, Seventh Edition, International Edition Adele Pillitteri, PhD, RN, PNP 978-1-4511-8896-7 • October 2013 • Hardbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 1744 pp 978-1-4511-8790-8 • North American Edition: Available in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands only

Prepare for your role as a maternity and child health care nurse with this updated Seventh Edition of Adele Pillitteri’s highly respected text! Presenting maternal-newborn and child health care not as two separate disciplines, but as a continuum of knowledge, the book presents the experience of wellness and illness as family-centered events and pregnancy and childbirth as periods of wellness in a woman’s life. Using a nursing process framework, the book’s clear, easy-to-understand presentation and wide range of built-in learning aids is designed throughout to help you master important concepts and skills. Features • Help your students develop critical thinking skills and make the leap from theory to practice through threaded Case Studies that follow a community of maternity and pediatric clients through each chapter. • Build student skills in nursing care planning with easy-to- understand, integrated coverage in the text, enhanced by an online Care Plan maker. • Equip your students for their role as a coordinator of care through Interprofessional Care Maps that demonstrate the nursing process. • Broaden your students’ knowledge of correct administration, potential complications, indications, and contraindications of drugs through Nursing Care Planning Based on Responsibility for Pharmacology boxes that ensure accuracy when administering drugs. • Help your students learn to anticipate and manage various clinical challenges with confidence through open-ended “What If?” questions. • Prepare students for sound practice with the step-by-step guidance provided in Nursing Care Planning Using Procedures boxes. • Help your students understand how research informs the most current practices with Evidence-Based Practice Check Points that summarize research on topics related to maternal and child health care and connect it to the chapter case study. • Demonstrate to students the importance of the nurse’s role in accomplishing the health care goals of our nation through Nursing Care Planning Based on 2020 National Health Goals features.

Table of Contents Unit 1: Maternal and Child Health Nursing Practice  Ch. 1: A Framework for Maternal and Child Health Nursing  Ch. 2: The Childbearing & Childrearing Family Ch. 3: Cultural Diversity and Maternal and Child Health Nursing Ch. 4: The Childbearing & Childrearing Family in the Community Unit 2: The Nursing Role in Preparing Families for Childbearing and Childrearing Unit 3: The Nursing Role in Caring for Families During Normal Pregnancy, Birth, the Postpartum, and Newborn Period Unit 4: Nursing Care of a Family During a Complication of Pregnancy, Birth, or the Postpartal Period Unit 5: The Nursing Role in Health Promotion for a Childrearing Family  Unit 6: The Nursing Role in Supporting the Health of Ill Children and Their Families   Unit 7: The Nursing Role in Restoring and Maintaining the Health of Children and Families With Physiologic Disorders   Unit 8: The Nursing Role in Restoring and Maintaining the Mental Health of Children and Families  Index

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Study Guide for Maternal and Child Health Nursing, Seventh Edition Adele Pillitteri, PhD, RN, PNP 978-1-4511-8791-5 •October2013 •Softbound •8.375”x10.875” •304pp