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Maternity • Pediatrics
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
… Abridged to fit
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
available