Perinatal Nursing is a comprehensive clinical resource for practicing perinatal nurses and an excellent staff educator's guide and textbook.

Perinatal Nursing provides commonly accepted guidelines for practice and evidence-based care and includes algorithms to support decision-making.

Contents

1. Perinatal Patient Safety and Professional Liability Issues
2. Integrating Cultureal Beliefs and Practices When Caring for Childbearing Women and Families
3. Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy
4. Psychosocial Adaptation to Pregnancy and Postpartum
5. Antenatal Care
6. High-Risk Pregnancy
7. Labor and Birth
8. Fetal Assessment During Labor
9. Pain Relief and Comfort Measures in Labor
10. Postpartun Care
11. Newborn Adaption to Extrauterine Life
12. Newborn Physical Assessment
13. Newborn Nutrition
14. Common Neonatal Complications

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