Canadian Maternity and Pediatric Nursing

This textbook features a full-color layout with color anatomical illustrations, clinical photos, photos illustrating equipment and techniques, and diagnostic images, plus many color boxes and tables. After an introduction to maternity and pediatric nursing, the text covers women's health through the lifespan, pregnancy through the postpartum period and the newborn, childbearing at risk, and the newborn at risk, in addition to health promotion for the child and family, foundations of pediatric nursing, and the child with a health disorder. Learning features include case boxes, key terms, patient teaching guidelines, examples of nursing care plans, step-by-step nursing procedures, and real-life critical thinking scenarios. The text also contains numerous tables on medications, lab and diagnostic tests, and common medical treatments. Chapters close with lists of websites for patient teaching, along with multiple-choice questions and clinical and community activities. A student website offers an ebook with complete text and images, plus video clips. An instructor site is also available. Chow has worked as an RN and nurse midwife. Ateah has taught nursing. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)