Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing
Murray, McKinney · 8th Edition
Complete chapter-by-chapter study guide aligned with Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing (8th Edition). Includes summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions for all 28 chapters.
Overview
Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing (8th Edition) builds maternity knowledge from the ground up, moving through pregnancy, birth, the postpartum period, the newborn, and women's health care. This study guide is written from scratch to match it chapter for chapter — all 28 chapters across its five parts — so you review in the same order Murray and McKinney teach and always know where a topic fits. For every chapter you get a plain-English summary of the key concepts, the chapter's learning objectives laid out up front, and NCLEX-style practice questions with a full rationale for every answer, so it teaches you why each choice is right or wrong rather than just handing you the key. You'll start with the foundations — clinical judgment and the nursing process, social, cultural, and ethical issues, reproductive anatomy and physiology, and hereditary and environmental influences — then work through the family before birth: conception and prenatal development, adaptations to pregnancy, antepartum care and education, nutrition, fetal assessment, and complications of pregnancy. The birth chapters cover the processes of birth, pain management, fetal surveillance, nursing care during labor, and intrapartum complications, and the chapters that follow move through postpartum adaptations and complications, critical-care obstetrics, newborn adaptation, assessment, and care, infant feeding, and the high-risk newborn. The closing women's health chapters on family planning, infertility, and women's health are matched to the 8th Edition's numbering so your review stays in sync. As you study you'll practice prioritizing care, recognizing warning signs, and answering the application questions the NCLEX favors. Whether you're prepping for a unit exam or reviewing maternity content before the licensure exam, this printable companion is built to be highlighted, annotated, and kept for the whole program. Original, independently written, and not affiliated with the publisher.
Aligned with undergraduate maternity and OB nursing courses and written in an NCLEX-RN style — the practice questions mirror how maternal-newborn content is tested on course exams and the licensure exam.
- 840+ practice questions
- 28 chapters
- ~120 pages
- Instant PDF download
What you'll learn
The major topics this guide walks you through, matched to the textbook's order:
- Clinical judgment and the nursing process
- Reproductive anatomy and physiology
- Conception and prenatal development
- Adaptations to pregnancy
- Antepartum assessment and education
- Nutrition for childbearing
- Prenatal diagnosis and fetal assessment
- Processes of birth and pain management
- Intrapartum fetal surveillance
- Postpartum adaptations and complications
- Newborn adaptation, assessment, and care
- High-risk newborn conditions
- Family planning, infertility, and women's health
Need the textbook itself?
The textbook itself, by Sharon Smith Murray and Emily Slone McKinney (Elsevier), is a foundational maternal-newborn text known for its clear writing and strong focus on clinical judgment.
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Chapters covered
Every chapter below is fully covered in the PDF — summary, learning objectives, key terms, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales.
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What exactly do I get?
A printable PDF study guide covering all 28 chapters of Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing (8th Edition) — chapter summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales. One file, lifetime access, no subscription.
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Does this match the 8th Edition specifically?
Yes — it's built around the 8th Edition, following its chapter numbering and part structure. If your course uses an earlier edition, most concepts still line up, though a few chapters may be renumbered.
Is this the textbook or a study guide?
It's an original, independently written study guide that reviews the same topics in the same order — plain-English summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales. It does not reproduce the textbook and isn't affiliated with the publisher.
Will it match my edition?
This guide is built around the 8th Edition. If your class uses a different edition, chapter numbering may shift slightly, but the topics and learning objectives are usually unchanged.
Do I still need the textbook?
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Is this a test bank or copied from the textbook?
No. This is an original study guide written to align with Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing — summaries, objectives, and practice questions with rationales, not a reproduced publisher test bank or copied text.
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About this study guide
This is an original study guide written to align with the topics and learning objectives covered in Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing (8th Edition) by Murray, McKinney. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by the publisher or the textbook's authors. All summaries, practice questions, and explanations are independently authored.