Updated evidence-based content includes the latest AHWONN standards of practice. Patient safety and risk management strategies include updated approaches to improving outcomes, reducing complications, and increasing patient safety during high risk pregnancy and delivery. New Venous Thromboembolic Disease chapter provides current information on this increasingly common condition. Information on the latest assessment and monitoring devices keeps you current with today's technology. Standardized terminology and definitions from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) lead to accurate and precise communication.
Unit I: Physiologic Considerations, Assessments, and Integrative Therapies 1. Physiologic and Nutritional Adaptations to Pregnancy 2. General Nursing Assessment of the High Risk Expectant Family 3. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being 4. Perinatal Screening, Diagnoses, and Fetal Therapies 5. Integrative Therapies in Pregnancy and Childbirth Unit II: Psychologic Implications of a High Risk Pregnancy 6. Psychologic Adaptations 7. Perinatal Death and Bereavement Care Unit III: Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Considerations in Perinatal Nursing 8. Ethical Decision Making 9. Legal Issues and Risk Management Unit IV: Health Disorders Complicating Pregnancy 10. Diabetes 11. Cardiac Disease 12. Renal Disease 13. Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases 14. Venous Thromboembolic Disease 15. Pulmonary Disease and Respiratory Distress Unit V: Complications in Pregnancy 16. Spontaneous Abortion 17. Ectopic Pregnancy 18. Gestational Trophoblastic Disease 19. Lacental Abnormalities 20. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation 21. Hemolytic Incompatibility 22. Hypertensive Disorders 23. Preterm Labor and Multiple Gestation 24. Premature Rupture of Membranes 25. Trauma Unit VI: Teratogens and Social Issues Complicating Pregnancy 26. Sexually and Nonsexually Transmitted Genitourinary Infections 27. Substance Abuse Unit VII: Alterations in the Mechanism of Labor 28. Labor Stimulation 29. Dysfunctional Labor 30. Prolonged Pregnancy
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