Labor and delivery nursing : a guide to evidence-based practice / Michelle L. Murray, PhD, RNC-OB, Gayle M. Huelsmann, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM.
| Author/creator | Murray, Michelle author. |
| Other author | Huelsmann, Gayle, author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2021] |
| Description | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Direct link to ebook |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Advocacy, communication, chain of command and evidence-based practice -- 2. Assessment to create an individualized plan of care and informed consent -- 3. Labor and birth -- 4. Pain, pain reduction, and evidence-based practice -- 5. Positions for labor and birth -- 6. The passageway, passenger, placenta and the umbilical cord -- 7. Passenger-passageway problems -- 8. Presentation, position, and station -- 9. Powers: force and physiology -- 10. Psyche during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum -- Appendix A: Abbreviations -- Appendix B: Abbreviations to avoid in documentation -- Appendix C: Hospital labor and delivery orientation fundamentals -- Appendix D: Orientation checklist -- Appendix E: Orientation log chart -- Glossary -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Learning about labor and birth requires effort. Reading books such as this one is one way to learn evidence-based concepts. In addition, learning about childbearing care practices that will keep patients safe and optimize outcomes can also occur from decades of experience prior to confirmation by research. Nurses with decades of experience know, for example, that the chain of command involves communication that can take many forms. For example, notifying a nursing leader of your patient's vital sign abnormalities is a form of the chain of command"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2020). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Murray, Michelle (Michelle L.). Labor and delivery nursing. Second edition. New York : Springer Publishing Company, [2021] 9780826184757 |
| LCCN | 2020018447 |
| ISBN | 9780826184764 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 0826184766 (electronic book) |