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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins News
AWHONN’s Perinatal Nursing
Fourth Edition
Edited by
Kathleen Rice Simpson, RNC, PhD, FAAN
, Perinatal
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, MO and
Pat A
Creehan, MSN, RNC, RN
, Manager of Clinical Operations Labor
and Delivery, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL
Softbound / ISBN: 978-1-60913-622-2 / ($79.99 / £45.00(t) / €51.00(t)) Worldwide
736 pp. / Approx. 175 Illus. / Approx. 106 Tables / 8.375 x 10.875 / June 2013
Note to Booksellers:
The previous edition published in June 2007. (ISBN: 978-0-7817-6759-0 )
Description
An official publication of the Association of Women’s Health,
Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN),
Perinatal Nurs-
ing, Fourth Edition
presents up-to-date information based on the most rigorous evidence and offers
suggestions for best practices. This new edition of the authoritative, comprehensive text used by
perinatal nurses worldwide features a wealth of new content to keep practice current. New chapters
related to patient safety aid the development of a highly reliable perinatal unit, inform nurses how to
conduct team training and drills for obstetric emergencies, create checklists, and effectively handoff
patients.
The new edition features expanded coverage of high-risk pregnancy, from bleeding in pregnancy to
preterm labor and birth, diabetes, cardiac disease, pulmonary complications, multiple gestation, and
maternal-fetal transport. An all-new chapter on obesity in pregnancy covers risks to the mother and
fetus, care from preconception to postpartum, as well as bariatric surgery. An expanded chapter on
newborn nutrition includes new sections on the infant feeding decision, benefits of breastfeeding,
nutritional components, and preterm milk and lactation.
FEATURES
NEW!
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Chapters related to patient safety
EXPANDED!
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Coverage of high-risk pregnancy, including a
NEW
chapter on obesity in
pregnancy
EXPANDED!
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Coverage on newborn nutrition
UPDATED
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and
REVISED
throughout
Nursing
Maternal and Women’s Health Nursing
