Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing by Susan Scott Ricci

(Paperback - Older Edition)

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  • ISBN: 0781752205
  • Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Pub. Date: February 2006
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Synopsis

This new Second Edition covers a broad scope of topics emphasizing common issues and maternity-specific information. With a unique concept-based approach and nursing process focus, this book helps students go from concept to application by building on previously mastered knowledge. This edition has an updated focus on evidence-based practice and increased emphasis on nursing management, focusing on assessment and interventions.

Nearly 500 outstanding photos and diagrams illustrate concepts and clinical conditions. Healthy People 2010 boxes highlight nursing implications for achieving specific objectives. Each chapter opens with a case study, which unfolds throughout the chapter to inspire critical thinking. Watch and Learn icons direct students to free video clips highlighting growth and development, communication, and nursing care.

A bound-in CD-ROM and a companion Website include video clips and NCLEX®-style questions.

"Doody's Core Titles™ 2009."

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This primary "essentials textbook" is intended specifically as the course text for the standard, increasingly shortened Maternity courses. The book covers topics of importance without providing the unnecessary detail that is seen in virtually all essentials maternity texts on the market today.

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05/02/2009: The book was overall okay. But it is important to note that there are some mistakes, such as incorrect illustrations.