2003 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!

This exciting new book provides everything nurses, physicians, and educators need to develop a Family-Centered Maternity program in their practice or facility. It offers a complete look at Family-Centered Maternity Care (FCMC), covering the history and evolution, and antepartum and intrapartum care for normal and at-risk pregnancies. It also provides examples for developing FCMC programs in hospitals, sample forms, policies and procedures for implementing such programs, and even assessment criteria for hospitals to evaluate their level of compliance with FCMC standards.