Newly updated to reflect the latest practice issues. This guide now includes sample clinical pathways; plans for development care, maternal AIDS patient care, infants born with fetal alcohol syndrome, and sexually transmitted diseases; key patient outcomes; handy documentation checklists; and a new user-friendly design. Contents include clinical consultants; acknowledgments; preface; antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care; newborn infant assessment guides; infant care; appendices; selected references; and index.