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Maternal & Child Nursing Care helps you build fundamental nursing skills for maternal-newborn and pediatric care, including clinical reasoning, cultural competence, and evidence-based practice. The text supports fast, efficient learning for condensed nursing courses by focusing on what's most important and avoiding duplicative content. Through its family-centered approach, you'll learn how to engage families as co-participants in care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and infant and child care. With an emphasis on contemporary nursing issues, coverage includes the QSEN concepts of informatics, quality improvement, patient-centered care, team collaboration, patient safety, and evidence-based practice. The 6th edition includes Healthy People 2030 objectives and a new Focus on Genetics feature.