Maternal-Child Nursing by Emily Slone McKinney, Sharon Smith Murray, Jean Ashwill, Susan R. James

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Engaging and easy to read, this concise textbook offers just the right level of maternity and pediatric nursing coverage. It provides a solid foundation in normal body function, then builds on that knowledge to help you understand how to modify nursing care when the unexpected arises. Clear writing and interactive learning tools (including video and animation) reinforce key concepts and encourage you to think critically and apply what you've learned.

• Critical to Remember boxes highlight "need to know" information for quick and easy access.
• Critical Thinking Exercises challenge you to apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to realistic clinical scenarios.
• Illustrated Procedure boxes provide clear, step-by-step instructions for performing key clinical nursing tasks.
• Nursing Care Plans in every clinical chapter help you learn to use the nursing process to develop individualized care for maternity and pediatric patients.
• Communications Cues provide practical verbal and nonverbal tips for communicating effectively with patients and families.
• Want to Know boxes offer helpful patient teaching guidelines.
• Photo Stories use engaging pictures to demonstrate the types of care nurses provide in a variety of clinical settings.
• Pathophysiology boxes in pediatric chapters provide illustrated overviews of common disorders. Companion CD-ROM contains video clips, 3-D animations, illustrated skills, case studies with critical thinking questions, NCLEX™ examination-style review questions, and an audio glossary complete with Spanish pronunciations.
• Evolve Student Resources Website offers up-to-date web links, video clips, resources forhealth care providers, review questions, and a variety of interactive exercises.

• Integrated electronic features match icons in the text, so you can use print and electronic resources more effectively together.
• Using Research to Improve Practice boxes help you determine proper care to reinforce best practice.
• Spanish translations are included for phrases commonly encountered with maternity and pediatric patients.
• Improved design makes the text easier to read, and up-to-date photos ensure accuracy.

Robin Webb-Corbett

This textbook is written to provide foundational maternity and pediatric nursing content with a family perspective. The editors have combined two separate texts, Gorrie's Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 2nd Edition (WB Saunders, 1998) and Ashwill's Nursing Care of Children: Principles and Practice (WB Saunders ,1997) to review important physiological and pathophysiological processes with instructive color plates and tables. This book is written to ""provide a foundation of care of these individuals and their families to the nursing student or the nurse entering maternal or pediatric nursing."" This combination of maternity, women's health, and pediatric nursing is a worthwhile endeavor, particularly with the emphasis on family. Family-centered care in combination with strong physiological and pathophysiological care is appropriate to the student learning needs and the practice arena. Content in this text is generally very well covered. For some areas, content brevity is noted as in most combination foundational texts. According to the editors, this text is written to provide foundational maternity and pediatric nursing content for nursing students or the practicing nurse entering maternity or pediatric nursing. I agree that it is appropriate for those populations and the contributors are credible authorities in the areas of maternal and women's health and pediatric nursing. Strengths of this textbook beyond the integrated content include use of instructive color plates and tables. In addition, varied nursing care plans are presented dependent upon the content to facilitate student learning. Critical thinking exercises are placed throughoutthe text and ""critical to know"" content is a condensed summary of important material. Unique to this text is the use of pediatric photo stories and clinical reference pages to distinguish differences in adult and pediatric systems. These particular features strengthen content and will assist students in their retention of the material. In addition, the table of contents and index are helpful. The only shortcoming is the brevity of content in some areas (i.e., discussion of types of cardiac surgery for congenital hearts). Still, this is to be expected in this kind of text. This text is well written and the editors do an excellent job of presenting maternity and women's health and pediatric foundational content. Numerous illustrative color plates and tables are included to help emphasize important content. In addition, unique features include pediatric photo stories and clinical reference pages. Particularly valued are the pathophysiology boxes in the pediatric chapters to provide a scientific basis for nursing care. I highly recommend this text for faculty or practicing nurses seeking a combination text.

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Reviewer:Robin Webb Corbett, PhD, RN,C (East Carolina University)
Description:This textbook is written to provide foundational maternity and pediatric nursing content with a family perspective. The editors have combined two separate texts, Gorrie's Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 2nd Edition (WB Saunders, 1998) and Ashwill's Nursing Care of Children: Principles and Practice (WB Saunders ,1997) to review important physiological and pathophysiological processes with instructive color plates and tables.
Purpose:This book is written to "provide a foundation of care of these individuals and their families to the nursing student or the nurse entering maternal or pediatric nursing."
Audience:This combination of maternity, women's health, and pediatric nursing is a worthwhile endeavor, particularly with the emphasis on family. Family-centered care in combination with strong physiological and pathophysiological care is appropriate to the student learning needs and the practice arena.
Features:Content in this text is generally very well covered. For some areas, content brevity is noted as in most combination foundational texts. According to the editors, this text is written to provide foundational maternity and pediatric nursing content for nursing students or the practicing nurse entering maternity or pediatric nursing. I agree that it is appropriate for those populations and the contributors are credible authorities in the areas of maternal and women's health and pediatric nursing. Strengths of this textbook beyond the integrated content include use of instructive color platesand tables. In addition, varied nursing care plans are presented dependent upon the content to facilitate student learning. Critical thinking exercises are placed throughout the text and "critical to know" content is a condensed summary of important material. Unique to this text is the use of pediatric photo stories and clinical reference pages to distinguish differences in adult and pediatric systems. These particular features strengthen content and will assist students in their retention of the material. In addition, the table of contents and index are helpful. The only shortcoming is the brevity of content in some areas (i.e., discussion of types of cardiac surgery for congenital hearts) . Still, this is to be expected in this kind of text.
Assessment:This text is well written and the editors do an excellent job of presenting maternity and women's health and pediatric foundational content. Numerous illustrative color plates and tables are included to help emphasize important content. In addition, unique features include pediatric photo stories and clinical reference pages. Particularly valued are the pathophysiology boxes in the pediatric chapters to provide a scientific basis for nursing care. I highly recommend this text for faculty or practicing nurses seeking a combination text.

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