Fast Facts for the L&D Nurse: Labor and Delivery Orientation

Groll DNP CNM, Cassie Giles

ISBN 10: 0826151248 / ISBN 13: 9780826151247

Published by Springer Publishing Company, 2022

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Synopsis:

Contains all the "survival tools" every new L&D nurse needs to gain confidence in the labor and delivery arena

This succinct, easy-to-use orientation guide for nurses new to labor and delivery (L&D) is the only resource to deliver quick-access guidance in bulleted format regarding everyday procedures, requisite equipment, and how to capably handle emergency situations. The third edition is completely updated to reflect the newest evidence-based practices from ACOG and SMFM. It presents a new chapter on Aromatherapy, along with salient new information on breastfeeding, labor progression, amniotic fluid embolism, and prematurity. Detailed illustrations enhance understanding of both routine procedures and complications.

New to the Third Edition:

• Updated to encompass the newest evidence-based guidelines from ACOG an SMFM
• Includes a new chapter on Aromatherapy
• New information on breastfeeding, labor progression, amniotic fluid embolism, and prematurity
• New illustrations on breech presentation and delivery and umbilical cord prolapse

Key Features:

• Delivers foundational knowledge in quick-access, bulleted format
• Designed to facilitate quick access to critical information to aid decision-making
• Fully outlines the equipment, medications, labs, and terminology needed for each scenario in the L&D suite
• Highlights potential OB complications
• Incorporates interventions/management pearls throughout

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fast Facts for the L&D Nurse: Labor and ...
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: 3rd Edition