Maternity Nursing

The components and scoring of the APGAR score, normal newborn vital signs, the components of the neuromuscular and physical maturity assessments of the New Ballard scale, thermoregulation in the infant, and anthopometric measurements such as height and weight.

In this video the procedure, complications, and nursing care for an external cephalic version. The components and scoring of the Bishop Score. Additionally, types of labor induction (cervical ripening, amniotomy, and oxytocin) and nursing care for all.

The risk factors, signs and symptoms, complications, and nursing care for uterine rupture, amniotic fluid embolism, and precipitous labor.

The risk factors, signs and symptoms, and nursing care for labor dystocia, prolapsed umbilical cord, and cesarean section (c-section) birth.

The indications, complications, and nursing care for vacuum-assisted delivery (VAD) and forceps-assisted delivery (FAD). Additionally, the risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnostics, treatment, complication, nursing care, and patient teaching for a patient experiencing premature rupture of membranes (PROM) or preterm labor.

The normal and abnormal fetal heart rate patterns, including causes and nursing interventions to take for each.

Learn all about Leopold maneuvers along with external and internal fetal heart rate monitoring.

Learn all about pain management during labor, including non-pharmacological measures, pharmacological options, and regional anesthesia (epidural and spinal blocks).

Learn all about the stages of labor and the difference between dilation and effacement.

Learn all about the factors affecting labor, fetal position, and fetal station.

Learn all about physiologic changes of labor and the difference between true and false labor.

Complications of pregnancy, including hypertensive disorders (gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia, and HELLP syndrome), group B streptococcus (GBS), and amniotic fluid abnormalities (polyhydramnios, oligohydramnios, and chorioamnionitis).