Authors Susan Ricci and Terri Kyle team up to deliver a unique resource for your students to understand the health needs of women and children. This new combination book, Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, will empower the reader to guide women and their children toward higher levels of wellness throughout the life cycle. In addition, the textbook emphasizes to the reader to anticipate, identify, and address common problems that win allow timely, evidence-based interventions. Finally their approach is to provide a resource that incorporates progressive case studies threaded throughout each chapter, multiple examples of critical thinking, and an outstanding visual presentation with extensive illustrations depicting key concepts.
• Progressive Case Studies threaded throughout each chapter present scenarios that inspire critical thinking.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes provide the latest information on best practices in nursing.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes highlight nursing implications for achieving objectives.
• Step-by-Step Nursing Procedures presented in a clear, concise format facilitate competent performance of key techniques.
• Nursing Care Plan boxes illustrate the five steps of the nursing process and present common health problems.
• Unique feature! Three types of summary tables are incorporated throughout the disorders chapters to generalize complex issues:
• Drug Guides summarize commonly used medications.
• Common Laboratory and Diagnostic Test boxes summarize commonly performed tests.
• Common Medical Treatment boxes present actions, indications, and significant nursing implications to provide optimal care.
• Bonus content available online at thePoint