The newly updated "Perinatal Nursing, 5th Edition" is your path to top-grade guidelines for perinatal care. Offering practical guidance on current perinatal best practices, this official publication of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) is comprehensive and authoritative, addressing the full range of perinatal care, from patient safety and physiologic changes to newborn physical assessment and nutrition. This is your essential, evidence-based support for positive, dependable care. -- From publisher's description.

Previous edition: published as Perinatal nursing. 2013.

Perinatal patient safety and quality / Kathleen Rice Simpson -- Integrating cultural beliefs and practices when caring for childbearing women and families / Lynn Clark Callister -- Physiologic changes of pregnancy / Susan Tucker Blackburn -- Antenatal care / Ellise D. Adams -- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy / Adriane Burgess -- Bleeding in pregnancy / Jean Salera-Vieira -- Preterm labor and birth / Sheryl E. Parfitt -- Diabetes in pregnancy / Cheryl K. Roth -- Cardiac disease in pregnancy / Julie Arafeh -- Pulmonary complications in pregnancy / Cheryl K. Roth -- Multiple gestation / Nancy A. Bowers -- Obesity in pregnancy / Mary Ann Maher -- Maternal-fetal transport / Judy Wilson-Griffin -- Labor and birth / Kathleen Rice Simpson and Nancy O'Brien-Abel -- Fetal assessment during labor / Nancy O'Brien-Abel and Kathleen Rice Simpson -- Pain in labor: nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic management / Carol Burke -- Postpartum care / Dotti C. James and Patricia D. Suplee -- Newborn adaptation to extrauterine life / Debbie Fraser -- Newborn physical assessment / Annie J. Rohan -- Newborn nutrition / Jill Janke -- Common neonatal complications / Annie J. Rohan.