Careplan book for Maternity/Peds?

[momathoner09, BSN, MSN, APRN]

Does a good one exist? With rationales?

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

yes.

care plan book: maternal/newborn plans of care: guidelines for individual care, third edition (currently) by marilynn e. doenges and mary frances moorhouse. it is 580 pages and has 7 chapters. i posted about what was specifically in it some time ago on this thread:

https://allnurses.com/forums/f50/ob-nursing-dx-book-163703.html

i often refer to it when answering care plan questions about ob on the student forums. i also use the clinical companion to foundations of maternal-newborn nursing, 4th edition, by sharon smith murray and emily slone mckinney as a reference. there are also these websites you can use for reference:

• http://www.childbirths.com/euniversity/mainpage.htm
  
• http://www.brooksidepress.org/products/military_obgyn/home.htm

while an ob care plan book is going to tweak your thinking on the kinds of problems to address, keep in mind that for an ob care plan you always need to know the underlying normal process of labor and delivery so you can perform a proper assessment. assessment is always the foundation of any careplan. the abnormal assessment data you obtain is what determines the patient's problems which become the nursing diagnoses.

[momathoner09, BSN, MSN, APRN]

Thank you!