Maternal and Neonatal Nursing Care Plans (2nd Revised Edition)

Description

This book is intended to facilitate the care planning process for nursing students and nurses working with maternal and newborn clients. Each nursing care plan includes nursing diagnosis and its definition, etiological factors, assessment data, characteristics of problems, expected outcomes, nursing interventions and evidence-based rationales, and evaluation.

It compiles all possible nursing diagnoses and care plans for:

Mothers in different stages of normal pregnancy, spontaneous labour, delivery and post delivery periods.
Pregnant women with associated medical problems and gestational complications.
Women who go through spontaneous and assisted pregnancy complications.
Newborns following normal birth process and in uncomplicated neonatal life.
Babies following assisted births and experiencing neonatal health problems.
Neonates who are preterm, post-term and with growth deviations.

This book is designed to assist students of undergraduate and postgraduate nursing courses as well as nursing professionals practicing maternal-newborn nursing.

Key Features

• The book is intended to facilitate the care planning process for nursing students and nurses working with maternal and newborn clients.
• Each nursing care plans include nursing diagnosis and its definition (as per NANDA Taxonomy-2006), etiological factors, assessment data, characteristics of problems, expected outcomes, nursing interventions and evidence-based rationales, and evaluation.
• It compiles all possible nursing diagnoses and care plans for:
  Mothers in different stages of normal pregnancy, spontaneous labor, delivery and post-delivery periods
  Pregnant women with associated medical problems and gestational complications
  Women who go through spontaneous and assisted pregnancy complications
  Newborns following normal birth process and in uncomplicated neonatal life
  Babies following assisted births and experiencing neonatal health problems
  Neonates who are preterm, post-term and with growth deviations.
• This book is designed to assist students of undergraduate and postgraduate nursing courses as well as nursing professionals practicing maternal-newborn nursing

Table of Contents

1. UNIT 1 Planning Nursing Care
   1. Nursing Process
2. UNIT 2 Pregnancy/Antepartum Period
   1. Genetic Counseling
   2. Trimesters
   3. High-risk Pregnancy
   4. Cardiac Conditions in Pregnancy
   5. Pregnancy-induced Hypertension
   6. Diabetes Mellitus: Pre-pregnancy/Gestational
   7. Prenatal Hemorrhage
   8. Prenatal Infection
   9. Premature Dilation of Cervix (Incompetent/Dysfunctional Cervix)
   10. Spontaneous Termination of Pregnancy/Abortion
   11. Elective Termination
   12. Preterm Labor/Prevention of Delivery
   13. Pregnant Adolescent
   14. Prenatal Substance Abuse/Dependence
3. UNIT 3 Intrapartum Period
   1. Labor Stage I: Latent Phase
   2. Labor Stage I: Active Phase
   3. Labor Stage I: Transition Phase (Deceleration)
   4. Labor Stage II: Expulsion of Fetus
   5. Labor Stage III: Placental Expulsion
   6. Dysfunctional Labor/Dystocia
   7. Labor Induction/Augmentation
   8. Cesarean Delivery
   9. Precipitous Labor/Delivery
   10. Intrapartal Hypertension
   11. Intrapartal Diabetes Mellitus
4. UNIT 4 Postpartum Period
   1. Labor Stage IV: First Four Hours Following Delivery of the Placenta
   2. Four Hours to Two Days Postpartum
   3. Care Following Cesarean Delivery (4 Hours to 3 Days)
   4. Client at 24 to 48 Hours Following Discharge
   5. Client at One Week Following Discharge
   6. Postpartal Hemorrhage
   7. Puerperal Infection
   8. Postpartal Diabetes Mellitus
   9. Puerperal Thrombophlebitis
   10. Parents of Newborns with Special Needs
   11. Perinatal Loss
5. UNIT 5 Newborn Period
   1. Neonate: First Hour of Life
   2. Neonate at Two Hours to Two Days of Age
   3. Neonate at Two Days to One Week Following Discharge
   4. Preterm Infant
   5. Newborn Having Hyperbilirubinemia
   6. Neonate of an HIV-Positive Mother
   7. Deviations in Growth Patterns
   8. Infant of an Addicted Mother
   9. Neonatal Circumcision
   10. Bibliography
   11. Index