Fast Facts for the L & D Nurse: Labor & Delivery Orientation in a Nutshell - Softcover

Groll, Cassie Giles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826109969 ISBN 13: 9780826109965

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2012

Synopsis

Nurses who are new to the labor and delivery (L&D) environment will welcome this succinct, easy-to-use orientation guide for everyday labor and birth management practices. It is designed for speedy access to fundamental information about the most common practices in the L&D unit and encourages the development of independence and confidence for new RNs orienting to this practice environment.

This well-formatted reference covers the more commonly occurring L&D situations, terminology, equipment, labs, medications, complications, and algorithms to help foster critical thinking and establish a concrete obstetric knowledge base. A wealth of clearly rendered illustrations are included to aid learning. The book also provides space for nurses to enter personal notes and protocol observed in their particular hospital.

Key Features:

• Provides an easy-access reference to everyday labor and birth management practices
• Includes common obstetrical abbreviations, terminology, equipment needed, labs, and algorithms
• Highlights potential complications in red to indicate emergent topic
• Integrates multiple illustrations to enhance learning
• Answers basic questions so new nurses can pursue higher-level learning

About this title

About the Author

Kathryn “Cassie” Giles Groll, DNP, CNM, is a doctorally prepared, certified nurse midwife, who is part of a full-scope OB/GYN private practice in New Jersey. She earned her master’s degree in nursing and doctoral degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She is licensed in both New Jersey and New York as a certified nurse midwife with prescriptive authority and as an OB/GYN nurse practitioner in the state of New York. She has worked as a midwife since 2006 and clinically as an RN in obstetrics in a variety of capacities, including as a clinical instructor of obstetrics at Columbia University, New York, and in the high-risk women’s health float pool at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York. She is a member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the Medical History Society of New Jersey, and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She has served as an advocate for sexual assault victims in Somerset, New Jersey.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826109969
• ISBN 13: 9780826109965
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152