Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, and Families [Hardcover]

Susan Ward (Author), Dr Shelton Hisley 2500 (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0803614861 | ISBN-13: 978-0803614864 | Publication Date: January 28, 2009 | Edition: 1

The perfect balance of maternal and child nursing care in a new textbook conceived and written to be a combination textbook! An extensive review by nursing educators ensures that it offers just the right depth and breadth of coverage for students in today's maternity/pediatric courses. Its unique emphasis on optimizing outcomes, evidence-based practice, and research supports the goal of caring for women, families and children not only in traditional hospital settings, but also wherever they live, work, study, or play. Clear, concise, and easy to follow, the content is organized around four major themes, holistic care, critical thinking, validating practice, and tools for care that help students to learn and apply the material. This title uses four major themes to organize the content: Holistic Care; Critical Thinking; Validating Practice; and, Tools for Care.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1184 pages
• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; 1 edition (January 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803614861
• ISBN-13: 978-0803614864
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > Medical Books > Nursing > Women's Health, Obstetrics & Gynecology

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Publisher should be ashamed..., August 30, 2010

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This review is from: Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, and Families (Hardcover)

...for putting out a textbook like this. The editing is horrendous and at some points affects the content due to incorrect grammar, sentence structure, etc. Makes me wonder about the accuracy of the book as well.

Also - totally agree with another reviewer about the text's comments on individualism and it's "dark side" - what a bunch of mindless nonsense. Evidently the author feels the book is not just a nursing text but a bully pulpit as well.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Peds and OB, January 27, 2010

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This review is from: Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, and Families (Hardcover)

This text is somewhat repeative in context. It seems to repeat the same information several times in different ways to an almost confusing point. At other times, there are values that are not consistent. This is something that happens often, but still should have consistency throughout the same book. I was disappointed in this aspect. Charts and graphics are difficult and the explainations do not always line up with the pictures. Not a big fan of this reading.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars poor excuse of a text book, June 21, 2010

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I am sorry but this book was poorly organized with quite the number of grammatical errors, content errors, and contradicting information. Halfway through my ob/pedes class I completely rejected the book and started to use other books as resources, how ironic that my grades got better thereafter.