Description

In all aspects of maternity and pediatric nursing, safety remains the ultimate responsibility of the nurse in their role. Safety is incorporated into one’s thinking, actions, skills, and caring practice. Safe Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Care offers the reader a variety of learning experiences that combine the art of nursing care and practice with the foundations of science. It includes essential nursing content from preconception to conception, pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal care through adolescent care.

The book is organized to present principles and concepts of maternity nursing through the principles and concepts of pediatric nursing health promotion and health restoration. The contents span preconception health through the end of the adolescent developmental stage and across concepts and systems of illness, injury, recovery, and healing. The third edition features updated and improved content and emphasizes critical thinking and clinical judgment.