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Maternity and Women's Health Care (11th Edition) - eBook

Maternity and Women’s Health Care (11th Edition) – eBook

eBook Details

  • Authors: Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Shannon E. Perry, Mary Catherine Cashion, Kathryn Rhodes Alden
  • File Size: 129 MB
  • Format: PDF
  • Length: 1000 pages
  • Publisher: Mosby; 11th Edition
  • Publication Date: December 18, 2014
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0148JSJ5G
  • ISBN-10: 0323377408, 032316918X, 0323390196, 0323299784
  • ISBN-13: 9780323377409, 9780323169189, 9780323390194, 9780323299787

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About The Author

Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk

Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk

Dr. Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, FAAN, RNC, Ph.D., is the Clinical Professor Emerita at the School of Nursing, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). She received her BSN from East Carolina University and her MEd and Ph.D. in Education from UNC-CH. Lowdermilk is certified in In-Patient Obstetrics by the National Certification Corporation.

Deitra is also a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She has repeatedly been selected as Classroom and Clinical Teacher of the Year by graduating seniors. In addition to being a nurse educator for over 34 years, she has clinical experience as a public health nurse and as a staff nurse in labor and delivery, postpartum, and newborn units, and has worked in gynecologic surgery and cancer care units. She was a recipient of the Educator of the Year Award from both the District IV Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and the North Carolina Nurses Association. She also received the 2005 AWHONN Excellence in Education Award.

Dr. Lowdermilk is also the co-author of Maternal Child Nursing Care (5th edition) and Maternity Nursing (8th edition). Her most significant contribution to nursing has been to promote excellence in nursing practice and education in women’s health through the integration of knowledge into practice.

In fall 2010, the East Carolina University College of Nursing named the Neonatal Intensive Care and Midwifery Laboratory in honor of Professor Deitra. In 2011 she was named one of the first 40 nurses inducted into the College of Nursing Hall of Fame.

Kathryn Rhodes Alden

Mary Catherine Cashion

Shannon E. Perry

Shannon E. Perry

Dr. Shannon E. Perry is the Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, San Francisco State University, California. She got her diploma in nursing from St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing, Illinois; a baccalaureate in Nursing from Marquette University, an MSN from the University of Colorado Medical Center, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Child Development from Arizona State University. Dr. Perry completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in perinatal nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar. She has had clinical experience as a head nurse, staff nurse, and supervisor in surgical nursing, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics, and neonatal nursing. Shannon has taught in schools of nursing in several states for over 35 years and was the interim director and director of the School of Nursing and director of a Child and Adolescent Development baccalaureate program at SFSU.

Professor Perry is the co-author of Maternal Child Nursing Care, Maternity Nursing, and Clinical Companion for Maternity & Newborn Nursing and has authored numerous articles and chapters on maternal-newborn topics and the legal aspects of nursing.

Dr. Perry’s experience in international nursing includes teaching international nursing courses in Ireland, Italy, UK, Thailand, Ghana, and China and participating in health missions in Kenya, Ghana, and Honduras. She is participating in establishing a school of nursing in Kenya, has supported the establishment of the library, and has had a wing of a dormitory named after her.

Maternity and Women’s Health Care, 11th Edition, (PDF) provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about minding for women of childbearing age. Not only does this ebook emphasize childbearing concerns like newborn care, it also talks about wellness promotion and management of women’s health problems. In describing the continuum of care, it incorporates the importance of understanding family, culture, and community-based care. Featuring new medication alerts and updated content throughout, this edition includes the new maternal levels of care, and the reviewed AAP policy on breastfeeding and infant sleep.

  • Medication guides offer an important reference of drugs and their interactions.
  • Proficient authors of the market-leading maternity nursing textbook provide the most accurate, up-to-date content.
  • Emergency boxes offer information about various emergency situations and provide a quick reference in critical situations.
  • Family-Centered Care boxes highlight the concerns and needs of families that you should consider to provide family-centered care.
  • Safety alerts highlighted and incorporated within the content draw attention to developing competencies relavent to safe nursing practice.
  • Teaching for Self-Management boxes stress important information that nurses need to communicate to patients and families for follow-up care.
  • Nursing care plans include foundations for interventions and give you an overview of, and specific guidelines for, providing effective nursing care.
  • Clinical reasoning case studies offer you opportunities to test and develop your analytical skills and to implement knowledge in various settings.
  • Signs of potential complications highlight key concerns, alerting you to signs and symptoms of complications and the speedy interventions to provide.
  • Cultural Considerations emphasize the importance of considering the beliefs and health practices of patients from varied cultures when providing care.
  • Community Activity boxes emphasize on maternal and newborn activities that can be pursued in local community settings and show nursing care in a variety of settings.

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