Product Description: Continually praised for its reader-friendly coverage of complex topics, this trusted resource provides fundamental, step-by-step guidance for assessing and caring for new mothers, newborns, and families. It carefully integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, client teaching, communication, and critical thinking all into the overall continuum of nursing care...read more

This book provides step-by-step instruction in assessments and interventions so beginning level users can function quickly in the clinical area . The book carefully integrates the importance of understanding family, culture, client teaching, communication, and critical thinking all into the overall continuum of nursing care. The third edition includes alternative and complementary therapies and evidence-based practice to focus on today's nursing practice.Includes the most current trends that affect maternity nursing practice todayComplementary therapies and evidence-based practice are presented throughout(Includes a FREE CD-ROM and SIMON website at: www.harcourthealth.com/SIMON/Murray/foundations/)

According to the World Health Organization’s World Health Report 2001, one family in four worldwide has at least one member currently suffering from a mental disorder. This disorder often remains undiagnosed and untreated, but the behaviour of the ill person usually has a significant impact on the quality of life of the family and on the mental health of the other members of the family, and generates feelings of shame, guilt, helplessness and despair. This book provides a comprehensive picture of currently available evidence about the specific characteristics of the burden on the families of people with the various mental disorders, the coping strategies which increase or decrease this burden, the family interventions of proven efficacy, and what should be said and what should not be said to the relatives of people with the various conditions.

Product Description: Revised and updated, the Second Edition of this text brings together articles that discuss family nursing and contribute to family nursing theory. This new edition incorporates publications on social issues that are currently impacting today's family...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This family nursing resource provides a comprehensive discussion of nursing intervention strategies across the life span and in a variety of clinical settings. It bridges the gap between theory and clinical practice by illustrating the use of theoretical assessment and intervention concepts within actual family situations, rather than through abstract discussions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A practical and concise text for associate degree nursing students. It presents the information needed for proficiency in maternal-newborn nursing. Topics covered include: nursing trends, new advances, and current procedures in the nursing care of the foetus, mother and infant.

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