Product Description: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a site where hi-tech medicine and vulnerable human beings come into close contact. Focusing on a number of medical and ethical challenges encountered by staff and parents, this book provides a new perspective on the complexity of these treatments and the inventiveness of those involved...read more

Product Description: Essential Neonatal Medicine provides a readily accessible and authoritative introduction to neonatal medicine for junior doctors and nurses written by internationally respected consultants in the UK and Australia. This new edition has been totally revised and updated with the latest management techniques, updates on ethical and legal challenges and also includes new approaches to care such as kangaroo care, nesting, massage and nursery design...read more

Product Description: The latest edition of this well-known work is completely revised to incorporate advances in neonatal care, including hypotension, mechanical ventilation, and early discharge. It presents an interactive approach to neonatal evaluation and management of the most common problems in infants...read more

Product Description: This brand-new 2nd Edition represents a complete revision of one of the major textbooks of neonatal-perinatal medicine. Readers will find state-of-the-art management strategies for virtually every aspect of the fetus and the critically ill newborn infant...read more

Product Description: This handy volume in the Field Guide Series provides an easy-to-follow roadmap to the processes and procedures essential to proper care of the normal newborn. The ideal quick-reference for family physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical students, and pediatric residents, the Field Guide to the Normal Newborn helps you focus on the "what" and "how" of normal newborn care—with clear and succinct descriptions highlighted by tables, charts, illustrations, and algorithms...read more

Product Description: This handy reference is written in the easy-to-understand Incredibly Easy style, with tips and encouragement from cartoon characters as the reader moves through the book. It provides a basic understanding of normal anatomy and physiology of women and neonates as well as the adaptations they make during the stages of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period...read more

Product Description: Completely updated for its Fourth Edition, this atlas provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on procedures performed in the neonatal intensive care nursery. In an easy-to-follow outline format, with more than 450 drawings and clinical photographs, the book presents clear, current information on indications, preparation, technique, precautions, and how to avoid potential complications...read more

An holistic approach to maternity nursing issues and techniques. The book includes case studies and questions integrated throughout the text for effective problem solving and decision-making skills.

First published in 1975, this fourth edition focuses on the pathophysiology and management of the major disease processes affecting the neonate.

Product Description: This completely updated text provides a comprehensive and readable reference to the pathophsiology, diagnosis, management, and prognosis for disease in the newborn, as well as describing the care of the normal neonate. The third edition has been restructured and revised to accommodate all advances as well as the new burgeoning issues in neonatology, notably cost and medico-legal aspects are fully addressed...read more

Nurses working with childbearing families today face a variety of new challenges, including shortened lengths of stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health care systems. Now more than ever, nurses must be flexible, and be able to think critically. Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care: The Nurse, the Family, and the Community (formerly Essentials of Maternal-Newborn Nursing) continues to emphasize the central role played by nurses working with todays childbearing families. *NEW- Chapter 29, "Home Care of the Postpartal Family," discusses assessment, teaching, and physical care of the postpartal woman, newborn, and family in the home. *NEW- Community-in-Focus boxes describe innovative community-based nursing programs in operation around the country. *NEW- Community-based nursing care and home care are described in key sections of the text to help students understand how therapeutic care of maternal-newborn conditions is given in the community. *NEW- Fifteen Critical Pathways have been added to address nursing care for women with complications and high risk newborns. The total number of Critical Pathways in this edition is eighteen. *NEW- Full-color format enhances visual learning of anatomic and physiologic processes and highlights key information. Dramatic photographs and personal reflections of childbearing women bring students closer to the childbearing experience. *NEW- A free student tutorial disk, packaged with each new textbook, includes 250 NCLEX-style questions with complete rationales for all possible answers. *Assessment Guides summarize assessment findings, alterations and possible causes, and nursing responses to assessment data to help students make distinctions between normal and abnormal clinical findings. *Teaching Guides help students assess common teaching needs in maternity care situations, create a particular teaching session, and evaluate the sessions success. *Discussion of client/family teaching is highlighted throughout the text by an apple logo in the margin. *Critical Thinking in Action boxes teach problem-solving and decision-making skills by asking students to determine appropriate responses to real-life clinical situations. *Essential Precautions in Practice boxes, integrated throughout the text, show students how to apply appropriate infection control practices in a variety of situations. *Key Facts to Remember provides a quick review of content crucial to effective nursing practice. *Procedures describe actions specific to maternal-newborn nursing care in step-by-step fashion. *Drug Guides describe the action, use, administration, and nursing considerations for the most important medications used in maternal-newborn nursing.

Product Description: FAMILY-CENTERED MATERNITY AND NEWBORN CARE provides a straightforward presentation of basic maternity nursing content combined with numerous self-assessment activities and clinical applications. Organized according to the childbearing cycle, the text emphasizes the "normalcy" of pregnancy and birth...read more

Product Description: Previously entitled "Practical Neonatal Paediatrics", this provides practical advice and instruction to medical and nursing staff on the labour ward, postnatal ward and in the home. It concentrates on practical issues and assumes no paediatric experience...read more

Product Description: In this work on neonatology, each chapter focuses on aetiology, clinical description, differential diagnosis and the treatments available.

Product Description: Revised and updated to include the latest information on caring for the sick neonate, this book provides step-by-step directions for 50 procedures used the care to sick neonates, ranging from the fundamental to the extremely complex...read more