Change defined -- Historical developments in maternity nursing -- Changes related to women's health: issues of contraception -- Change in family roles -- Change in society: roles and expectations -- Cultural aspects of childbearing -- Ethics and perinatal nursing -- Legal issues in perinatal nursing -- Physiologic changes in the fetus -- Physiologic changes in the maternal system -- Psychologic and emotional changes of pregnancy: mother and family -- Maternal nutrition -- Prenatal diagnosis and fetal well-being -- Methods of childbirth preparation -- The role of the nurse in the prenatal period -- The labor process: change in the mother and fetus -- The nurse's role during the intrapartal period -- Comfort management during labor and delivery -- Care of the newborn immediately following birth -- Maternal physiologic adaptation -- Breastfeeding: physiology and management -- Postpartum exercises -- The nurse's role in the postpartum period -- Parent education: teaching/learning. Extrauterine life adaptation -- Assessment of the normal newborn -- Care of the normal newborn -- Infant nutrition -- Infant attachment and stimulation -- Problems during pregnancy -- Problems during the intrapartal period -- The high-rish newborn -- Resuscitation of the high-rish newborn -- Maternal and neonatal transport -- Care of the high-risk family: strategies for mobilizing families in perinatal crisis -- Perinatal loss -- The father's role -- Adolescent pregnancy -- The parent with a physical disability -- Susstance abuse -- Sexually transmitted diseases: impact on perinatal infections -- Alternative birthing methods -- Caring in perinatal nursing -- Research for change.
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