Delivering babies is exciting! and messy, and somtimes very loud, but there is nothing greater than the joyful noise of that infants first cry.
Labor and Delivery has a lot more to it than just catching babies. I'm going to try and cover as much as I can think of in attempt to give you a good picture. And there's SO much I want to tell you about! but first lets discuss...
- Certifications & Governing bodies
Certifications & Governing Bodies
As a medic you should already have BLS and ACLS. Hospitals typically provide the others and most allow 30 days to complete after hire.
- BLS-Basic Life Support (you've got this one already)
- ACLS- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (and this one too!)
- NRP- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (most units will provide this one.)
- EFM- (Basic EFM courses are FREE online! woot!)
Electronic Fetal Monitoring, maternal-fetal oxygenation
I know, I know, at first glance it looks like a shockable rhythm. lol
-If you loved 12-lead interpretation you're gonna love this. It's a very interesting look at the fetal HR and oxygenation in relation to cotractions and is used to monitor fetal wellbeing.
Basic Pattern Recognition – Electronic Fetal Monitoring (ob-efm.com)
- AWHONN
AWHONN- Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses - AWHONN
lays out the RN to patient ratios, journals, education and so much more.
- Spinning Babies Class
Spinning Babies - Comfort in Pregnancy and Easier Birth
Specialized Classes teaching how to get a fetus into ideal position for delivery with client positioning and peanut/birthing balls. These typically are not required but are really cool!
As I said, there's SO MUCH I want to tell you about, I apologize, I've been putting off my posts because I wanted to do one in it's entirety.... but, I realize now that's not a resonably obtainable goal for me and you'll get it faster if I chop it down and do it in bits and post, win WIN, AND, if you're like me, you'll be checking out all the cool resources I provide along the way. :-)
Until Next Time! Happy Learning!
With Great Respect,
-MrsNurseMedic
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Keep in touch to see upcoming posts on,
- Team Members and Roles
OBGYN Physician
Certified Scrub Tech
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
Registered Nurse (That's YOU!)
- Skills
- Procedures
- Types of Patients
- Common Complaints
- Emergencies
- Medications
- Fetal Demise
- Post Partum Recovery