Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care

Appropriate as a core text as well as a reference, it provides all of the information necessary for skills-development in an ever-changing health care environment.
Nurses working with childbearing families today face a variety of new challenges, including shortened lengths of stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, downsizing and mergers of health care systems. Now more than ever, nurses must be flexible, and be able to think critically. The Fifth Edition continues to emphasize the central role played by nurses working with todays childbearing families.