Co-published with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), this book features a family-centered approach to perinatal nursing and examines the care of and needs of childbearing women and neonates. The text's many topics include: professional development; standards of care; legal considerations; and professional organizations. Aspects and ramifications of different care delivery systems, such as case management, critical pathways, and collaborative practice are explored. This revised edition contains two new chapters: Strategies to Develop an Evidence-Based Approach to Prenatal Care and Pregnancy and Childbirth Practices of Selected Cultures and Religions. Extensive appendices include sample care maps, guidelines, forms, and algorithms.

This is a first-of-its-kind, massive set of two volumes totaling over 2,000 pages on everything known about perinatal medicine. Complete with hundreds of photographs, figures and tables plus thousands of references, the two volumes contain nearly 200 chapters by the world's foremost authorities providing detailed, up-to-date coverage of neonatology, audit, economics, epidemiology, ethics and medicolegal aspects of perinatal medicine, ultrasound in perinatal medicine, doppler in perinatal medicine, basic sciences, screening procedures in perinatology, fetal and maternal physiology, perinatal morphology, nutrition and metabolism in mother and infant, metabolic disorders in the newborn, early pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis and therapy, intrauterine growth, preterm delivery, fetal monitoring, multiple pregnancy and delivery, infectious disease in pregnancy, labor and delivery, and maternal diseases. Includes extensive bibliographic references and comprehensive index.