内容简介

MANUAL OF HIGH RISK PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY, 2ND EDITION provides the practicing perinatal nurse in obstetric facilities with comprehensive in one accessible text. The text covers the must-knows of care screening for risk factors, providing preventive management, and intervening appropriately when problems arise. Various problems are presented in a consistent format that includes incidence, etiology, physiology, pathophysiology, and medical management with protocols for nurse practitioners. Collaborative problems and desired outcomes are also addressed. The book also discusses the role of the advance practice nurse implementing care. This completely revised edition includes. current AWHONN Standards of Practice and NANDA nursing diagnoses, a new chapter on complementary and alternative therapies, new content on multiple gestation including nutritional needs and preterm management, and new information on domestic violence, thrombophilias and other connective tissue disorders.