Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, 5th edition, is designed to align with today's education curricula, addressing the need for nursing educators to focus on key concepts amidst reduced class time. This textbook provides a solid foundation for delivering sound nursing care to women and children, focusing on essential content that enables students to anticipate, identify, and address common problems with timely, evidence-based interventions. Combining maternity and pediatric nursing into a single, cohesive volume, this book equips students with the knowledge and skills needed for comprehensive nursing care throughout the continuum of women's and children's health. By integrating these areas, students build a robust knowledge base and develop critical thinking skills essential for improving patient outcomes. Structured into eleven units, the book begins with general concepts related to maternity and pediatric nursing care, covering topics from women's health, pregnancy, and birth to child health promotion and the management of health alterations in children. Enhanced with unfolding patient stories, threaded case studies, "Consider This" sections, and detailed nursing care plans, Maternity and Pediatric Nursing fosters critical thinking by providing practical examples and scenarios. The fifth edition integrates content from Ricci's Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing and Kyle/Carman's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, combining the strengths of both into a single, concise volume. It includes new features such as phonetic spelling of key terms, coordinated design elements, and standardized end-of-chapter elements like -Chapter Worksheets- and "Developing Clinical Judgement." Additionally, it incorporates the latest guidelines on growth and development, diversity, equity, and inclusion, COVID-19 considerations, and the Supreme Court's abortion decision. Enhanced topics cover maternal morbidity and mortality disparities, LGBTI care, human trafficking, obstetric deserts, safe infant sleep practices, new contraceptives, and updated clinical practice guidelines. - Unfolding Patient Stories: Written by the National League for Nursing, this student engagement tool allows visualization of client situations and an opportunity for classroom discussion. The vignettes feature Wolters Kluwer's vSim for Nursing | Fundamentals, facilitating classroom discussions. - Clinical Reasoning Alerts: Promotes critical thinking in the nursing process with key information for clinical reasoning. - Threaded Case Studies: Real-life scenarios with questions to enhance caregiving skills and critical evaluation. - Evidence-Based Practice: Incorporates current research in Evidenced-Based Practice boxes throughout the chapters. - Nursing Care Plans: Concrete examples of the nursing process steps provided in numerous chapters. - Comparison Charts: Clarifies concepts by comparing two or more disorders or easily confused topics. - Nursing Procedures: Step-by-step instructions for performing relevant nursing procedures. - Consider This: First-person narratives for empathy and critical contemplation. - Atraumatic Care: Tips for providing atraumatic care in pediatric sections.
