| Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, & Families |  | Authors: Susan L. Ward, Shelton M. Hisley
Publisher: F A Davis Co
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 1312
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.6
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.6 x 1.7
ISBN: 0803614861
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.20231
EAN: 9780803614864
Publication Date: February 15, 2009
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Product Description
The perfect balance of maternal and child nursing care in a new textbook conceived and written to be a combination textbook! An extensive review by nursing educators ensures that it offers just the right depth and breadth of coverage for students in today s maternity/pediatric courses. Its unique emphasis on optimizing outcomes, evidence-based practice, and research supports the goal of caring for women, families and children not only in traditional hospital settings, but also wherever they live, work, study, or play. Clear, concise, and easy to follow, the content is organized around four major themes, holistic care, critical thinking, validating practice, and tools for care that help students to learn and apply the material.
Key Features
* Uses four major themes to organize the content:
* Holistic Care
* Holistic Quote/Story
* Nursing Insight boxes
* Collaboration in Caring
* Ethnocultural Considerations
* What to Say
* Nursing Care Plans
* Complementary and Alternative Care Modalities
* Across Care Settings
* Family Teaching Guidelines
* Critical Thinking
* Case Studies
* Clinical Alerts
* Critical Nursing Actions
* NCLEX-style review questions
* Concept Maps
* Learning Targets
* Key Words
* Validating Practice
* Optimizing Outcomes
* Moving Toward Evidence-Based Practice boxes
* Where Research and Practice Meet
* Be Sure To...
* Now Can You?
* Summary Points
* Tools for Care
* A & P Review
* Labs boxes
* Step-by-Step Procedure boxes
* Medication boxes
* Assessment Tools
* Diagnostic Tools
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 This book is okay... September 5, 2010
Amy
I have found a lot of typos in this book. It is very general, so far I have had to purchase three other books to supplement this one.
 Publisher should be ashamed... August 30, 2010
Mr. Peepers (Flatsville)
...for putting out a textbook like this. The editing is horrendous and at some points affects the content due to incorrect grammar, sentence structure, etc. Makes me wonder about the accuracy of the book as well.
Also - totally agree with another reviewer about the text's comments on individualism and it's "dark side" - what a bunch of mindless nonsense. Evidently the author feels the book is not just a nursing text but a bully pulpit as well.
poor excuse of a text book June 21, 2010
Heather Fazelinia (los angeles)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am sorry but this book was poorly organized with quite the number of grammatical errors, content errors, and contradicting information. Halfway through my ob/pedes class I completely rejected the book and started to use other books as resources, how ironic that my grades got better thereafter.
How to kill your maternity patient January 30, 2010
Lisa Zerby (Kirkland, Washington USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is full of errors and the authors express their opinions on several topics rather than maintaining a professional neutrality.
The biggest error I have found to date is very serious. If a student (or nurse) were to give their patient the amount of fentanyl that is listed on the table on page 414, they are going to kill her since it is 1000 time more than the typical dose for humans.
One particular paragraph early in the text talks about individualism and claims that individualistic thinking leads to "choosing or creating your own reality." This is absolute b***s***. The rational individual does not ignore their fellow human beings and does not create a fantasy to live in! The rational individual recognizes that taking care of oneself first is required in order to delivery quality care to others, but this does not mean the individual ignores others. Blaming the victim is endemic in all levels of society and from all manners of philosophies, this is a problem with society, not individuals. Individualism also does not prohibit or preclude compassion and empathy for others. As you can see, this particular bit of drivel really got my dander up.
The text is repetitive, poorly edited, duplication of sentences on the same page occurs, the index is incomplete - you can't find some common terms in the index and you know they are in the text because you read them, it is not heavy on nursing implications - which is the stuff the NCLEX is made of, it focuses on anatomy, physiology and the changes that occur during development or pregnancy, it really likes to promote acronyms as study guides (some people like this, others don't work well with this type of tool).
More errors include the misuse of terms ("ethnic" and "cultural" is not interchangeable, and culture would not have an impact on bilirubin levels!)...I am sure I will find more.
Recommendation, research for another more accurate well-researched text. If you are a student and have no choice, I suggest supplemental reading from other sources and double check ALL medication doses that are listed in this text!
Peds and OB January 28, 2010
Meg (MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This text is somewhat repeative in context. It seems to repeat the same information several times in different ways to an almost confusing point. At other times, there are values that are not consistent. This is something that happens often, but still should have consistency throughout the same book. I was disappointed in this aspect. Charts and graphics are difficult and the explainations do not always line up with the pictures. Not a big fan of this reading.
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