Description
The revised Fourth Edition of this essential text contains 19 modules that guide the reader from assessment of the pregnant woman and her fetus, through labor and delivery, to postpartum evaluation and care. Each module is carefully developed to enhance self-paced learning and skills attainment, perfect for competence validation and orientation.
The text illustrates the essentials of intrapartum care. Step-by-step "How to's" (Skill Units) guide the nurse from fetal monitoring to management of high risk situations. This edition has new modules on cultural competence and OB Emergencies, including hemorrhage and Caesarian delivery "on demand", and new content on legal accountability, maternal and newborn transport, electronic fetal monitoring, and domestic violence assessment. This revision has been guided by two new co-authors, Margaret Betsy B. Kennedy of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and Donna J. Ruth of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Features
--Unique self-paced format
--Skills Units provide step-by-step instruction
--Objectives and Key Terms for each part and each module
--Practice and review sections with answer keys for each part within each module
--Glossary
--Centers for Disease Control guidelines for standard precautions in labor and delivery
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NEW TO THE FOURTH EDITION:
- New module on cultural competence
- New module on OB emergencies and assisting in operative deliveries
- More content on legal accountability
- New content on maternal and newborn transport
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development guidelines on electronic fetal monitoring
- Content on Simulation Learning added to appendix
- New appendix on domestic violence assessment
About the Author(s)
- Margaret B Kennedy MSN, RN
- Assistant Professsor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, TN
- Donna J Ruth MSN, RN, PCNS
- Clinical Learning Consultant, Nursing Education and Development, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- E. J Martin RN, MS, MSN, CNM
- Professor Emeritus, College of Nursing, Graduate Nurse-Midwifery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Specs
- Edition: Fourth
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781781688
- Trim Size: 8.375 x 10.875
- Pages: 784
- Pub Date: Apr 4, 2008
- Weight: 3.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Module 2: Maternal and Fetal Response to Labor
Module 3: Admission Assessment of the Laboring Woman
Module 4: Admission Assessment of the Fetus
Module 5:Caring for the Laboring Woman
Module 6: Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring
Module 7: Induction and Augmentation of Labor
Module 8: Caring for the Woman at Risk for Preterm Labor or Premature Rupture of Membranes
Module 9: Caring for the Laboring Woman with Hypertensive Disorders Complicating Pregnancy
Module 10: Caring for the Laboring Woman with HIV Infection or AIDS
Module 11: Hepatitis B Infection: Maternal-Newborn Management
Module 12: Caring for the Pregnant Woman with Diabetes
Module 13: Delivery in the Absence of a Primary Care Provider
Module 14: Assessment of the Newborn and Newly Delivered Mother
Module 15: Informed Consent and Documentation
Module 16: Maternal Transport
Module 17: Intimate Partner Violence during Pregnancy
Module 18: Intrapartum Emergencies
Module 19: Care of the Woman
Experiencing an Operative or Instrumented Delivery
Appendix A: Sexually Transmitted Infections
Appendix B: Treatment of Diabetes during Pregnancy and Review of Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Appendix C: To Comfort Always: Care of the Dying Newborn
Appendix D: Guidelines for Implementing a Perinatal Education Program
Appendix E: Group B Streptococcus Infections Pregnancy
Appendix F: Care of the Woman with Special Concerns
