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Maternal Child Nursing Care (Wong, Maternal Child Nursing Care) |  | Authors: Shannon E. Perry RN CNS PhD FAAN, Marilyn J. Hockenberry PhD RN-CS PNP FAAN, Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk RNC PhD FAAN, David Wilson MS RNC
Publisher: Mosby
List Price: $115.00
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 95172
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Pages: 1864
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.7
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.7 x 2.3
ISBN: 0323057209
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.9200231
EAN: 9780323057202
ASIN: 0323057209
Publication Date: September 24, 2009
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Product Description
This market-leading textbook provides just the "right amount" of maternity and pediatric content in an easy-to-understand manner. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book includes 28 chapters on maternity nursing and the second part contains 27 chapters covering pediatric nursing. Numerous illustrations, photos, boxes, and tables clarify key content and help you quickly find essential information. And because it's written by market-leading experts in maternity and pediatric nursing, you can be sure you're getting the accurate, practical information you need to succeed in the classroom, the clinical setting, and on the NCLEX® examination.
- UNIQUE! Nursing Alerts point out critical information to consider when caring for patients.
- UNIQUE! Guidelines boxes outline instructions for skills or procedures in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format.
- UNIQUE! Emergency boxes offer quick reference to emergency procedures for critical maternity and pediatric emergencies.
- UNIQUE! Home Care boxes offer helpful guidelines for delivering effective care in the home environment.
- UNIQUE! Atraumatic Care boxes in the pediatric section illustrate how to provide competent nursing care without creating undue physical or psychological stress for pediatric patients, families, and nurses.
- UNIQUE! Community Focus boxes examine community issues and provide resources and guidance on caring for families outside the clinical setting.
- UNIQUE! Cultural Awareness boxes address culturally competent care for patients with a variety of customs and beliefs.
- UNIQUE! Family-Centered Care boxes discuss the family's role and needs in caring for the patient.
- UNIQUE! Nursing Process boxes offer quick access to nursing process information for major diseases and conditions.
- Critical Thinking Exercises provide case scenarios to promote sound clinical decision making.
- Nursing Care Plans include rationales for interventions and provide specific guidelines for delivering effective nursing care.
- Patient Teaching boxes highlight important information for communicating continuing care instructions to patients and families.
- New and consolidated content on pain assessment and management focuses on this key aspect of pediatric nursing.
- Updated content on evidence-based practice illustrates how current research can be used to improve patient outcomes.
- The latest information in the field is included throughout, including expanded coverage of the late preterm infant and fetal heart rate pattern identification.
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 Horrible Textbook November 24, 2009
d (Haha, USA)
I cannot understand the praise for this textbook I have seen from other reviewers. While the authors treat the medical/surgical aspects of maternal and pediatric nursing with due attention and thoroughness, the book suffers from an overall absence of consistent internal organization. Unlike my med/surg or psych textbook, each chapter has a different layout, and many of the chapters contain passages that wander, endlessly, until I actually forgot what subheading in what chapter I was reading. "Information overload" is a good way to describe it, although this probably would have been bearable if the authors had spent as much time organizing their material as they did actually cramming material into the book.
Where the textbook completely loses me, though, is in its many chapters devoted to the same old pop-PC psychobabble I've come to know and loathe in so many nursing books. Professors and other students may disagree with me, but I regard the inclusion of what is essentially sociology with a healthcare spin in what should be a book predominated by med/surg content a particularly loathsome phenomenon. This book, of course, has it in spades. Entire chapters are devoted to explorations of women's health, and are loaded with nauseating multi-cultural, politically-correct, New Age jargon. I'm not saying there's not a time and place for that (preferably in an entirely different textbook). Community health and women's health nurses, in particular, seem to love that sort of content (interpersonal energy flows, anyone?). At least the ones I've met. I'm saying it distracts from the med/surg fundamentals of women's health- you know, the actual medical and nursing science- to include hundreds of pages of social science in the same textbook.
There's also not a few unintentionally hilarious passages, such as this gem: "Gender influences provider-patient communication and may influence access to health care in general. The most obvious gender consideration is that between men and women."
Really? Between men and women, eh? Is that how that works? One wonders if the authors wanted to include a discussion of gender differences in health care between, say, men and hermaphrodites, or men and an alien species with a third gender, or men and transgendered men, or men and Archaea. Sheesh.
 Great Condition June 26, 2009
Brianne N. Bodenham
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book was in great condition and the shipping was on time as well. No complaints.
 Maternal Child Nursing Care December 2, 2008
C. Carshult
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is horrible. It is redundant, full of fluff with no end of chapter questions, no glossary and a non-user friendly index.
Hopelessly disorganized November 19, 2008
Maggie Smith (middleamerica USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book would not be so bad if it were better organized and had a better index in the back. A glossary would also be a great addition. The organization of the book causes me to spend way too much time trying to find the information. The index is poor which is another huge frutration. Because the information on a particular topic is so scattered, if you found the info. once you may never find it again. When I am looking for information on a particular topic I do not want to have to read half the book gleaning a bit out of every chapter. This book frustrated me to the max. The information is all there if you can just find it. I will sell it with glee and purchase another OB nursing book for my shelf for reference purposes.
fast delivery; product arrived in stated condition October 2, 2008
C. Agacinski (Seattle, WA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Appreciated how quickly this product arrived, and it was in the condition as described on Amazon.
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