Description:
Superpower your maternal-neonatal skills, with the fully updated Maternal-Neonatal Facts Made Incredibly Quick!®, 3rd Edition , the indispensable pocket guide that offers at-your-fingertips answers on maternal-neonatal nursing essentials.

Flip quickly to the section on which you need guidance with the help of brightly colored tabs. Then scan the quick-read bulleted text for vital direction on the four stages of labor, interpreting stress test results, Lamaze techniques, interpreting lab values, and more. This handy quick-reference guide offers both classroom and on-the-unit support for nursing students, nurses, and all maternal-neonatal healthcare professionals.

Use this reference for maternal-neonatal assessments, tests, monitoring, and care, with these featues:

• NEW and updated bulleted content with quick-read tables, charts, and drawings
• Wipeable laminated pages that make notetaking and erasing quick and easy
• Pocket-sized, spiral-bound format that offers instant access to expert nursing guidance
• Dozens of colorful diagrams, charts, and images that offer practical direction for areas including:
  • Classifying fetal presentation
  • Distinguishing between true and false labor
  • Noting systemic changes in the active phase of labor
  • Assessing glucose challenge values
  • Assessing the three categories of pregnancy signs
  • Distinguishing the signs and symptoms of separation between the placenta and uterine wall
  • Patient teaching
  Easy-to-follow definitions and guidance on areas including:
  • Internal and external fetal monitoring—reading a fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring strip and identifying FHR patterns
  • Potential complications of medication administration
  • Comfort measures in labor
  • Primary indications for cesarean birth—maternal, placental, and fetal
  • Understanding lacerations and umbilical cord prolapse
  • Prenatal care - taking an obstretric and medical history, adaptations to pregnancy, fundal height, Leopold's maneuvers, fetal development, cultural practices, and more
  • Intrapartum - spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, female pelvis, labor, cervical effacement and dilation, drug administration, cesarean birth, and more
  • Postpartum - postpartum phases, fundal palpation, uterine involution, postpartal hemorrhage, pulmonary embolism, maternal self-care, lactation, and more
  • Neonatal - neonatal flow algorithm, physiology and assessment, Apgar score, sutures and fontanels, infections, HIV, oxygen therapy, circumcision, neonatal labs, and more