Sunday, February 10, 2013

Maternity and Pediatric Nursing


Authors Susan Ricci and Terri Kyle have teamed up to deliver a unique resource for your students to understand the health needs of women and children. This new combination book, Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, will empower students to guide women and their children toward higher levels of wellness throughout the life cycle. The textbook emphasizes how to anticipate, identify, and address common problems to allow timely, evidence-based interventions. Features include threaded case studies throughout each chapter, multiple examples ofcritcal thinking , and an outstanding visual presentation with extensive illustrations depicting key concepts.
A bound-in CD-ROM and a companion Website include video clips and NCLEX®-style review questions.

Reviewer: Robin Webb Corbett, PhD, RN C(East Carolina University)
Description: This is an essential maternity and pediatrics textbook for nursing students and staff nurses providing direct patient care for obstetric and/or pediatric patients.
Purpose: The book is designed to combine maternity and pediatric basic information  to build a strong knowledge base and assist with the development of maternal/pediatric clinical decision making skills.
Audience: Maternity and pediatrics nursing students and staff nurses caring for obstetric and/or pediatric patients are the intended readers. The authors are knowledgeable authorities in maternity/pediatric nursing.
Features: Each chapter includes features called “Consider This” to engage students in scenarios to facilitatecritical thinking and “Take Note!” to emphasize important material. Numerous pictures, tables,  mursing care plan boxes, and teaching guidelines reinforce content. Case studies, evidence-based practice boxes, and
 supplementary information are available online at a companion web site.
Assessment: This is an excellent textbook for nursing educational program that teach maternity and pediatric nursing as one course or as a tandem course.

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