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Maternal-Newborn Plans of Care: Guidelines for Planning and Documenting Client Care - Textbook Only
MaternalNewborn Plans of Care Guidelines for Planning and Documenting Client Care Textbook Only Author:Marilynn E. Doenges -- Includes free software with copy-and-paste feature to individualize patient care — -- The text is divided into 4 sections (prenatal, intrapartal, postpartal, and newborn) and includes 50 plans of care — -- Each section begins with a specific assessment tool for data collection to facilitate assessment and diagnosis — -- Each care plan guideline ... more »includes a sample client assessment data base, nursing priorities, potential nursing diagnoses with "May be related to" and "Possibly evidenced by" statements, desired outcomes/evaluation criteria, interventions, and rationales for each intervention; the interventions are separated into independent and collaborative actions
-- Use of home care and outpatient monitoring has been expanded
-- Plans of care addressing special needs, such as prenatal substance dependence/abuse and the infant of an HIV-positive mother, are included
-- The introductory chapters include:
-- a chapter on Adapting Theory to Practice
-- current issues and trendsin maternity nursing such as cost containment, advanced and collaborative practice, shorter hospital stays, home care, and freestanding birth centers
-- review of nursing process, nursing diagnosis, and formulation of plans of care
-- a sample client situation with individual data and corresponding plans of care to demonstrate how to adapt the nursing process to practice
-- evaluation and documentation are addressed with sample documentation methods (SOAP, DAR)« less