| Physiologic and nutritional adaptations to pregnancy -- General nursing assessment of the high risk expectant family -- Assessment of fetal well-being -- Perinatal screening, diagnoses, and fetal therapies -- Integrative therapies in pregnancy and childbirth -- Psychologic adaptations -- Perinatal death and bereavement care -- Ethical decision making -- Legal issues and risk management -- Diabetes -- Cardiac disease -- Renal disease -- Autoimmune rheumatic diseases -- Venous thromboembolic disease -- Pulmonary disease and respiratory distress -- Spontaneous abortion -- Ectopic pregnancy -- Gestational trophoblastic disease -- Placental abnormalities -- Disseminated intravascular coagulation -- Hemolytic incompatibility -- Hypertensive disorders -- Preterm labor and multiple gestation -- Premature rupture of membranes -- Trauma -- Sexually and nonsexually transmitted genitourinary infections -- Substance abuse -- Labor stimulation -- Dysfunctional labor -- Prolonged pregnancy. |