Maternity and Women's Health Care
Lowdermilk, Cashion · 13th Edition
Complete chapter-by-chapter study guide aligned with Maternity and Women's Health Care (13th Edition). Includes summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions for all 37 chapters.
Overview
Maternity and Women's Health Care (13th Edition) is one of the most widely assigned maternity texts, covering women's health, pregnancy, birth, the postpartum period, the newborn, and high-risk complications. This study guide is written from scratch to match it chapter for chapter — all 37 chapters across its eight parts — so you review in the same order your instructor teaches 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 a key. You'll move through the introduction to maternity and women's health nursing, community and cultural care, and genomics, then women's health topics such as health promotion, reproductive concerns, sexually transmitted infections, contraception and abortion, infertility, and breast and reproductive disorders. From there you'll work through conception and fetal development, the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy, prenatal nursing care, and maternal nutrition, then the labor and birth chapters on the birth process, comfort and pain, fetal assessment, and nursing care during birth. The postpartum, newborn, and newborn-nutrition chapters, along with the high-risk pregnancy and newborn-complication units on hypertensive, hemorrhagic, endocrine, and mental-health disorders, are matched to the 13th Edition's numbering so your review stays in sync. As you study you'll practice prioritizing care, recognizing warning signs, and answering the kind of 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.
- 1,110+ practice questions
- 37 chapters
- ~120 pages
- Instant PDF download
What you'll learn
The major topics this guide walks you through, matched to the textbook's order:
- 21st-century maternity and women's health nursing
- Women's health promotion and screening
- Contraception, abortion, and infertility
- Reproductive system disorders
- Conception and fetal development
- Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy
- Antepartum nursing care and maternal nutrition
- Labor and birth processes
- Fetal assessment during labor
- Postpartum care and transition to parenthood
- Newborn adaptation, care, and feeding
- High-risk pregnancy complications
- High-risk newborn and perinatal loss
Need the textbook itself?
The textbook itself, by Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Kitty Cashion, and colleagues (Elsevier), is a comprehensive maternity and women's health text organized around the childbearing cycle and widely assigned in OB nursing courses.
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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 37 chapters of Maternity and Women's Health Care (13th 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 13th Edition specifically?
Yes — it's built around the 13th 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 13th 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?
The study guide is a companion, not a replacement — it helps you study efficiently and review fast, but you'll still want the textbook for full depth and any assigned readings. You can buy new, rent, or find a used copy through the price links on this page.
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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 Maternity and Women's Health Care — 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 Maternity and Women's Health Care (13th Edition) by Lowdermilk, Cashion. 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.