Fast Facts for the Antepartum and Postpartum Nurse: A Nursing Orientation and Care Guide in a Nutshell Open ebook -
by Michele R. Davidson
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All aspects of safe, effective, holistic care for birthing mothers, newborns, and their families are included in this easy-access guide for new antepartum and postpartum nurses and their preceptors during the orientation period. Presented in the convenient, easy-to-use Fast Facts format, the book provides up-to-date information regarding care for both low- and high-risk antepartum and postpartum patients. It encompasses evidence-based practice guidelines and clinical recommendations for routine antepartum assessment and nursing care, care of women with pre-existing conditions prior to pregnancy or complications of pregnancy, routine postpartum assessment and care, postpartum complications, and care of special populations. Each chapter features a helpful iorientation guidei to acquaint the new orientee with essential information on procedures and policies, equipment, medications, and evidence-based protocols.
Chapters are organized systematically to include assessment and management guidelines, health promotion and teaching recommendations, routine laboratory and ultrasound tests, and holistic evidence-based nursing care practices. A separate section addresses special populations and outlines care components specific to these women and their families. They include culturally diverse families, women on each end of the age spectrum, women with fetuses or newborns diagnosed with adverse outcomes, women who have a history of being victimized, and those with deployed partners. While targeted to hospital-based nurses and new nurses in hospital orientation and their preceptors, it is also a helpful resource for nurses who practice in a great variety of related settings, as well as nurse midwifery students. Appendices include a skills checklist, a list of commonly used medications, abbreviations, and lab values.
Key Features:- Covers all aspects of safe, evidence-based, holistic care for birthing mothers, newborns and their families Written for nurses in orientation and their preceptors as well as nurses working with mothers and newborns in any practice setting
- Provides key information demonstrating the impact of newborn status on assessing, planning, and implementing care Includes an iorientation guidei to acquaint new orientees with essential information on procedures, policies, equipment, medications, and evidence-based protocols
- Addresses specific care components needed for special populations
Details
- Title Fast Facts for the Antepartum and Postpartum Nurse: A Nursing Orientation and Care Guide in a Nutshell
- Author Michele R. Davidson
- Binding Open Ebook
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer Publishing Company
- ISBN 9780826168870 / 0826168876
- Dewey Decimal Code 618.202
About the author
Michele R. Davidson, PhD, CNM, CFN, RN, is Associate Professor of Nursing and an affiliate faculty member for the Women's Studies Program at George Mason University. Her clinical experience has been in a variety of women's health settings including labor and delivery, postpartum, NICU, reproductive endocrinology, and inpatient gynecology at Columbia Hospital for Women. She has delivered over 1,000 babies during her career as a nurse midwife and has treated women with a variety of mental health disorders. Dr. Davidson formulated a support group that provides ongoing treatment to indigent women battling postpartum depression. She has co-written 15 textbooks including the international bestseller Old's Maternal-Newborn Nursing and Women's Health Care Across the Lifespan (9th Edition), which is translated into nine languages. She has also written more than 17 textbook chapters and has published over 50 papers. Dr. Davidson is Past Vice President of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) and was an item writer for the ACNM National Certification Examination. She is also an educational affiliate of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). She received an honorary award from the March of Dimes for her ongoing care to pregnant women. In 2002, Dr. Davidson established the Smith Island Foundation to provide rural health care education and screening programs and children's programming to a small island community in the Chesapeake Bay. She subsequently developed an immersion clinical practicum for students to participate in rural community health on Smith Island.
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