Intrapartum Management Modules A Perinatal Education Program

by Kennedy, Margaret B.; Ruth, Donna Jean; Martin, E. Jean

• ISBN13: 9780781781688
• ISBN10: 078178168X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-04
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Overview of Labor

Maternal and Fetal Response to Labor

Admission Assessment of the Laboring Woman

Admission Assessment of the Fetus

Caring for the Laboring Woman

Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring

Induction and Augmentation of Labor

Caring for the Woman at Risk for Preterm Labor or Premature Rupture of Membranes

Caring for the Laboring Woman with Hypertensive Disorders Complicating Pregnancy

Caring for the Laboring Woman with HIV Infection or AIDS

Hepatitis B Infection: Maternal-Newborn Management

Caring for the Pregnant Woman with Diabetes

Delivery in the Absence of a Primary Care Provider

Assessment of the Newborn and Newly Delivered Mother

Informed Consent and Documentation

Maternal Transport

Intimate Partner Violence during Pregnancy

Intrapartum Emergencies

Care of the Woman Experiencing an Operative or Instrumented Delivery

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Treatment of Diabetes during Pregnancy and Review of Diabetic Ketoacidosis

To Comfort Always: Care of the Dying Newborn

Guidelines for Implementing a Perinatal Education Program

Group B Streptococcus Infections Pregnancy

Care of the Woman with Special Concerns

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