Labor and delivery nursing: a guide to evidence-based practice

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.