This textbook takes the women's health focus beyond gynecologic care. A nursing-process format is used throughout each nursing-care chapter, and bold headings identify the parts of the text that relate to each nursing-process step. Research that applies to clinical practice is also included along with an emphasis on family-centered care and critical thinking skills. Photo essays dramatize fetal development and delivery. Content includes nursing and the childbearing family, women's health care, the antepartal period, the intrapartal period, the neonate, and the postpartal period.