Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 12th edition

Published by Pearson (April 18, 2024) © 2025

  • Michele C. Davidson George Mason University
  • Marcia London Beth-El College of Nursing and Sciences
  • Patricia Ladewig

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Title overview

Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan acknowledges the central role of nurses in all aspects of childbearing. Relatable and engaging, it promotes holistic, evidence-based care grounded in patient-family partnerships. You’ll build the clinical reasoning skills needed to care for patients in an ever-changing healthcare system.

The 12th Edition covers shifts in nursing care prompted by recent and major changes in reproductive healthcare, including a dramatic rise in maternal mortality and the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. Additionally, Healthy People 2030 goals related to maternal, newborn and women's healthcare have been incorporated into the start of each chapter.

Table of contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING

  1. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
  2. Families, Cultures, and Complementary Therapies

PART II: WOMEN'S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

  1. Health Promotion
  2. Family Planning
  3. Commonly Occurring Infections
  4. Women's Health Problems
  5. Social Issues and Violence Affecting Women

PART III: HUMAN REPRODUCTION

  1. Reproductive Physiology, Conception, and Fetal Development
  2. Reproductive Genetics

PART IV: PREGNANCY

  1. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy
  2. Antepartum Nursing Assessment
  3. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care
  4. Maternal Nutrition
  5. Pregnancy in Selected Populations
  6. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being
  7. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems
  8. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset

PART V: LABOR AND BIRTH

  1. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth
  2. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment
  3. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care
  4. Pharmacologic Pain Management
  5. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Onset Complications
  6. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications
  7. Birth-Related Procedures

PART VI: THE NEWBORN

  1. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth
  2. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn
  3. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care
  4. Newborn Nutrition
  5. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth
  6. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors
  7. Postpartum Family Adaptation and Nursing Assessment
  8. The Postpartum Family: Early Needs and Home Care
  9. The Postpartum Family at Risk

APPENDICES

  1. Common Abbreviations in Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing
  2. Conversions and Equivalents

Glossary

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