Maternal-Child Nursing by Emily Slone McKinney MSN RN C

Build your skills in the science and art of maternity and pediatric nursing! Maternal-Child Nursing, 6th Edition makes it easy to understand the essentials of women’s health, maternity, and children’s nursing care. It simplifies the steps of the nursing process and relates them to care, helping you develop clinical judgment skills and provide safe, effective care in evidence-based practice. This edition adds case studies preparing you for the new Next Generation NCLEX® examination. Best of all, active learning tools and features make it fun to master nursing concepts, offering plenty of opportunities to apply your knowledge to the practice setting. Nursing Care Planshelp students apply the nursing process to plan individualized care in the most common maternity and pediatric situations Clinical Reference sections in pediatrics chapters provide basic information on disorders and their related anatomy and physiology, differences in body systems between children and adults, commonly used drugs, lab values, diagnostic tests, and procedures Clinical Judgment boxes highlight situations designed to test clinical judgment skills Health Promotion boxes highlight information needed to perform a comprehensive assessment of well infants and children at various ages Read more