Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Superpower your maternal-neonatal skills, with the fully updated Maternal-Neonatal Facts Made Incredibly Quick, 3rd Edition, the indispensable pocket guide that offers at-your-fingertips answers on maternal-neonatal nursing essentials. Flip quickly to the section on which you need guidance with the help of brightly colored tabs. Then scan the quick-read bulleted text for vital direction on the four stages of labor, interpreting stress test results, Lamaze techniques, interpreting lab values, and more. This handy quick-reference guide offers both classroom and on-the-unit support for nursing students, nurses, and all maternal-neonatal healthcare professionals. Use this reference for maternal-neonatal assessments, tests, monitoring, and care, with these featues: - NEW and updated bulleted content with quick-read tables, charts, and drawings - Wipeable laminated pages that make notetaking and erasing quick and easy - Pocket-sized, spiral-bound format that offers instant access to expert nursing guidance - Dozens of colorful diagrams, charts, and images that offer practical direction for areas including: - Classifying fetal presentation - Distinguishing between true and false labor - Noting systemic changes in the active phase of labor - Assessing glucose challenge values - Assessing the three categories of pregnancy signs - Distinguishing the signs and symptoms of separation between the placenta and uterine wall -Patient teaching - Easy-to-follow definitions and guidance on areas including: - Internal and external fetal monitoring-reading a fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring strip and identifying FHR patterns - Potential complications of medication administration - Comfort measures in labor - Primary indications for cesarean birth-maternal, placental, and fetal - Understanding lacerations and umbilical cord prolapse - Prenatal care - taking an obstretric and medical history, adaptations to pregnancy, fundal height, Leopold's maneuvers, fetal development, cultural practices, and more - Intrapartum - spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, female pelvis, labor, cervical effacement and dilation, drug administration, cesarean birth, and more - Postpartum - postpartum phases, fundal palpation, uterine involution, postpartal hemorrhage, pulmonary embolism, maternal self-care, lactation, and more - Neonatal - neonatal flow algorithm, physiology and assessment, Apgar score, sutures and fontanels, infections, HIV, oxygen therapy, circumcision, neonatal labs, and more
