Maternal & Child Nursing Care (4th Edition) [Hardcover]
Author: Marcia L. London | Language: English | ISBN: 0133046001 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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This dynamic, up-to-date text offers an integrated framework and philosophy for teaching the nursing of childbearing families and nursing of children together. Accurate, readable, and concise, Maternal & Child Nursing Caresupports faster and more efficient learning in briefer, more compressed courses; while helping students develop essential skills for fast-changing healthcare environments. Core themes in this edition include family-centered and community-based care; health promotion (including Healthy People 2020); patient and family education; clinical reasoning; evidence-based practice, and developing cultural competence. This edition adds new Safety Alerts; more coverage of pain as the fifth vital sign; greater focus on care of families where a child is dying; and updated content on assessment, nutrition, communication, and many other key topics. Multiple pedagogical tools help students focus both learning and review, including intuitive Pathophysiology Illustrated visuals; Family Quotes presenting the family’s perspective; Learning Outcomes and Critical Concept Review Features; Key Terms, and an online audio glossary.
- Hardcover: 1920 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4 edition (October 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0133046001
- ISBN-13: 978-0133046007
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.7 x 2.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #71 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Women's Health > Pregnancy & Childbirth
- #78 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Nursing > General
This is a poorly organized text book; you will find information so scattered throughout the book, you will need to go to the index and find all the various sections topics may appear in order to get all of the data. I don't have any other maternal nursing texts to compare it to; however as far as Nursing texts go, I'm not a huge fan of having to jump back and forth to make sure I am getting all of the necessary information. In a single chapter you may find: assessment data about a neonate disease process, information about deviations from the norm in routine assessment, normal maternal data...a few chapters later, you'll find additional assessment data about the neonate, general description about the disease process from a few chapters ago, public health information, random tables about drugs... if my description of how the book is organized sounds all over the map, then get used to it; that's how you will feel reading the text!By J. MacKay
In addition to the poor organization, there are noticeable grammatical errors, repetitive information, and contradictory data found in various places. I have spent the last year learning medical jargon to appropriately define S/S that are tossed out of the window in this book. There are several lengthy descriptions of material that could be better introduced to the learner with an illustration, or unnecessary illustrations of elements that are easily conceptualized with the accompanying description. Finally, there are essential assessment tools described the text... excluding the specifics of how to properly use it or clear defined parameters (ex. New Ballard Score p.545); however the text has pages of examples of how an assessor used it on specific cases.
I gave this book a two stars because it does have so much good information; however the way it is organized is extremely distracting; I constantly have the feeling that I'm going to miss something important.
This book is just horrific! It is all over the place. I find it very hard to find things because you look in one chapter for something and it's discussed briefly and you have to hunt for it in another chapter. I believe they should have split the book in 2 volumes and split the peds and OB information. I do NOT recommend this book at all!!!By jsimpson
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