Lippincott Williams & Wilkins New Publication Announcement April-June 2013

Nursing Maternal and Women’s Health Nursing

AWHONN’s Perinatal Nursing Fourth Edition

Edited by Kathleen Rice Simpson, RNC, PhD, FAAN , Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, MO and Pat A Creehan, MSN, RNC, RN , Manager of Clinical Operations Labor and Delivery, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL

Description An official publication of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), Perinatal Nurs-

ing, Fourth Edition presents up-to-date information based on the most rigorous evidence and offers suggestions for best practices. This new edition of the authoritative, comprehensive text used by perinatal nurses worldwide features a wealth of new content to keep practice current. New chapters related to patient safety aid the development of a highly reliable perinatal unit, inform nurses how to conduct team training and drills for obstetric emergencies, create checklists, and effectively handoff patients. The new edition features expanded coverage of high-risk pregnancy, from bleeding in pregnancy to preterm labor and birth, diabetes, cardiac disease, pulmonary complications, multiple gestation, and maternal-fetal transport. An all-new chapter on obesity in pregnancy covers risks to the mother and fetus, care from preconception to postpartum, as well as bariatric surgery. An expanded chapter on newborn nutrition includes new sections on the infant feeding decision, benefits of breastfeeding, nutritional components, and preterm milk and lactation. FEATURES NEW! ▶ ▶ Chapters related to patient safety EXPANDED! ▶ ▶ Coverage of high-risk pregnancy, including a NEW chapter on obesity in pregnancy EXPANDED! ▶ ▶ Coverage on newborn nutrition UPDATED ▶ ▶ and REVISED throughout

Note to Booksellers: The previous edition published in June 2007. (ISBN: 978-0-7817-6759-0 )

Softbound / ISBN: 978-1-60913-622-2 / ($79.99 / £45.00(t) / €51.00(t)) Worldwide 736 pp. / Approx. 175 Illus. / Approx. 106 Tables / 8.375 x 10.875 / June 2013

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