For all courses in maternal and child nursing care in any nursing program. 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. Hallmark Features Extensive coverage of family-centered nursing care --helping nurses engage family members as co-participants in care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the care of infants and children at all stages of development; includes Family Quotes to start each chapter, positioning the role and concerns of the family Expert coverage of health promotion and health maintenance --helping nurses promote health in families and children wherever they seek healthcare, and whatever conditions they may be experiencing Support for nursing care in the community --including up-to-date information on the long-term management of complex health conditions that are especially challenging to manage in community settings Extensive coverage of patient and family education --including focused Teaching Highlights that present a special healthcare issue or problem and related key teaching points Encouragement for effective Clinical Reasoning throughout --including brief scenarios presented within chapters, as well as innovative Clinical Reasoning in Action case studies that introduce a patient situation, ask the student to decide which nursing actions are appropriate, and teach students to create Concept Maps - visual depictions of the relationships among the key concepts relevant to care Strong focus on the nursing process --including expanded sections on assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation designed to help students understand and apply the nursing process more completely and systematically Complete sample Nursing Care Plans for patients with complications --including women with preeclampsia and children with otitis media; plans include Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Intervention Classifications (NIC), and Nursing Outcome Classifications (NOC). Many pedagogical features to promote faster, more efficient learning --including clear Learning Outcomes at the beginning of each chapter; Key Terms with page numbers to identify where they first appear; extensive easy-to-use cross-referencing; and Media Thumbtabs linking to online video resources Visuals that teach --including Pathophysiology Illustrated figures that let students "see into the body" and visualize the causes and effects of conditions on childbearing women, newborns, and children; and As Children Grow illustrations helpings student visualize key anatomic and physiologic differences between children and adults Critical Concept Review flowcharts at the end of each chapter --visually identifying key concepts, so students can focus on reviewing the concepts themselves, instead of spending time identifying them Clinical Tip features --offering hands-on suggestions and clinical tips on everything from home/community care to legal and ethical issues Complementary Care boxes --present important information about commonly used alternative and complementary measures to treat or provide comfort for various conditions Developing Cultural Competence boxes --highlighting specific cultural issues and their application to maternal-newborn nursing care Drug Guides --helping students correctly administer selected medications and evaluate their actions Evidence-Based Practice boxes --presenting recent nursing research, discussing the implications, and challenging students to incorporate this information into their nursing practice through realistic activities Growth and Development boxes in most pediatric chapters --explaining how children respond differently to many health conditions at different ages Online Audio Glossary of commonly used terms --helping students learn how to pronounce these terms properly as professionals working in the field.