Co-published with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), this book is a comprehensive clinical resource for practicing perinatal nurses and an excellent staff educator's guide and textbook. It provides commonly accepted guidelines for practice and evidence-based care and includes algorithms to support decision-making. Numerous photographs complement the text and summary boxes highlight key points. Appendices provide patient care examples and practice guidelines.

This edition has been extensively revised and updated. New features include more than 650 end-of-chapter review questions and answers and selected AWHONN protocols.

• Chapter 1 Perinatal Patient Safety and Professional Liability Issues
• Chapter 2 Integrating Cultural Beliefs and Practices When Caring for Childbearing Women and Families
• Chapter 3 Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy
• Chapter 4 Psychosocial Adaptation to Pregnancy and Postpartum
• Chapter 5 Antenatal Care
• Chapter 6 High-Risk Pregnancy
• Chapter 7 Labor and Birth
• Chapter 8 Fetal Assessment During Labor
• Chapter 9 Pain Relief and Comfort Measures in Labor
• Chapter 10 Postpartum Care
• Chapter 11 Newborn Adaptation to Extrauterine Life
• Chapter 12 Newborn Physical Assessment
• Chapter 13 Newborn Nutrition
• Chapter 14 Common Neonatal Complications