Maternity Nursing: An Introductory Text

Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text provides essential content for a solid foundation in maternity nursing. Its easy-to-follow body system approach progresses along a continuum from conception to adulthood, emphasizing prevention, early recognition, antepartum care, and the family. With its easy-to-read, clear writing style, it provides exactly the right depth and breadth of content for LPN/LVNs.

• Nursing Care Plans reinforce the nursing process as applied to maternity nursing.
  
• Skills teach basic techniques performed by the LPN/LVN in maternity nursing settings.
  
• Clinical Pathways, included where appropriate, provide a collaborative approach to care.
  
• Critical Thinking Activities feature brief clinical scenarios at the end of each chapter to encourage problem-solving and critical interpretation of data.
  
• A unique, built-in Self-Assessment workbook section, perforated at the back of the book, includes clinical situations, Internet activities, and multiple-choice questions.
  
• Fast Focus boxes present thought-provoking content on specific issues and topics related to chapter content.
  
• A chapter on Women's Health Issues (Chapter 22) covers major gynecologic concerns, STDs, and violence/rape trauma.
  
• A chapter on Complementary and Alternative Therapies (Chapter 23) discusses the wide range of nontraditional therapies that offer pain relief during labor and childbirth, a decrease in nausea during pregnancy, coping strategies for stress, and more.
  
• Healthy People 2010 objectives are incorporated throughout the text to familiarize readers with these key federal guidelines and objectives.
  
• Nursing care plans follow the nursing process format, with critical thinking question at the end.
  
• Content on the protection of patient privacy according to HIPAA and JCAHO standards discusses federal law and regulations of critical importance to both patients and care providers.

• Full-color LPN Threads design - with objectives, key terms, care plans with critical thinking questions, key concepts, bibliography and reader references, and more - makes this accessible, reader-friendly book even easier to use.
• NCLEX-PN Test Plan Comparison maps content from the text with the current test plan.
• Approximately 25 new, full-color photos add to the book's visual appeal and bring concepts to life.
• Cultural content in the first chapter and throughout the book has been expanded, now with full-color photographs.
• Provides basic information on Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC), promoting awareness and recognition of how these nursing languages are used.