Birth Settings in America
Birth Settings in America

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0309669820

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The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.

AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing
AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing

Author: Kathleen R. Simpson

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2013-06-24

Total Pages: 1475

ISBN-13: 1451179103

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An official publication of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), Perinatal Nursing, Fourth Edition presents up-to-date information based on the most rigorous evidence and offers suggestions for best practices. This new edition of the authoritative, comprehensive text used by perinatal nurses worldwide features a wealth of new content to keep practice current. New chapters related to patient safety and the development of a highly reliable perinatal unit, inform nurses how to conduct team training and drills for obstetric emergencies, create checklists, and effectively handoff patients. It features expanded coverage of high-risk pregnancy, from bleeding in pregnancy to preterm labor and birth, diabetes, cardiac disease, pulmonary complications, multiple gestation, and maternal-fetal transport. An all-new chapter on obesity in pregnancy covers risks to the mother and fetus, care from preconception to postpartum, as well as bariatric surgery. An expanded chapter on newborn nutrition includes new sections on the infant feeding decision, benefits of breastfeeding, nutritional components, and preterm milk and lactation.

AWHONN's Competence Validation for Perinatal Care Providers
AWHONN's Competence Validation for Perinatal Care Providers

Author: Kathleen Rice Simpson

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 9780397554621

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This reference provides guidelines, tools and instruments for developing orientation, continuing education and competency validation programmes for both licensed and unlicensed providers of perinatal care. The text is consistent with JCAHO and AWHONN philosophies of staff education and aims to help educators to adequately evaluate knowledge bases and verify essential clinical skills, and to enhance and sustain quality outcomes.