Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nurse's role in a changing maternal-child healthcare environment -- Family-centered and community-based maternal and pediatric nursing -- Structure and function of the reproductive system -- Special issues of reproduction and women's health care -- Fetal development -- Maternal adaptation during pregnancy -- Prenatal care -- The labor process -- Pain management during labor and birth -- Nursing care during labor and birth -- Assisted delivery and cesarean birth -- The postpartum woman -- Newborn adaptation to life outside the womb -- Infant nutrition -- The normal newborn -- Pregnancy at risk : conditions that complicate pregnancy -- Pregnancy at risk : pregnancy-related complications -- Labor at risk -- Postpartum woman at risk -- The newborn at risk : gestational and acquired disorders -- The newborn at risk : congenital disorders -- Principles of growth and development -- Growth and development of the infant : 28 days to 1 year -- Growth and development of the toddler : 1 to 3 years --

Growth and development of the preschool child : 3 to 6 years -- Growth and development of the school-age child : 6 to 10 years -- Growth and development of the adolescent : 11 to 18 years -- Assessment of the child-includes well and sick -- The hospitalized child -- Procedures and treatments -- Medication administration and IV therapy -- The child with a chronic health problem -- The dying child -- The child with sensory/neurologic disorders -- The child with respiratory disorders -- The child with cardiovascular/hematologic disorders -- The child with gastrointestinal/endocrine disorders -- The child with genitourinary disorders -- The child with musculoskeletal disorders -- The child with integumentary disorders/communicable diseases -- The child with psychosocial disorders.