2010 Complications & Crisis: OB Clinical Care Issues

Speaker: Judith H. Poole PhD, RN, MN

• Labor & Delivery Nurses
• Neonatal or Mother/Baby Nurses
• Antepartum & Postpartum Nurses
• Nurse Midwives, OB Clinic/Office Nurses

Your patients are providing more clinical challenges each and every day! Today’s practitioner must have the knowledge and clinical skills needed to deal with complications and crisis in pregnancy. Wherever you practice, office, clinic, triage, antepartum or labor & delivery; your observation and management skills are tested each and every day.
This program provides critical knowledge you will use more often than you ever thought possible!

Following this course you will be able to:

• Determine maternal/fetal hemodynamic status with systemic, noninvasive measurements.
• Discuss fetal oxygen transport and fetal compensatory mechanisms.
• Differentiate diagnostic criteria and management options for
  preeclampsia and eclampsia.
• Discuss etiology and medical/nursing management of pulmonary
  edema and pulmonary embolism.
• Recognize conditions conducive to excessive blood loss in pregnancy, labor and postpartum, estimating blood loss with increased accuracy and initiate appropriate response.
• Describe principles, indications, administration and complications of fluid and blood replacement therapies.
• Discuss the role of effective communication to reduce patient injury
  and improve outcomes on the perinatal unit.
• Recognize FHM indicators of stress, distress and decompensation.
• Discuss maternal and fetal implications of induction/augmentation of labor.
• Identify current trends related to VBAC and cesarean on demand, noting the role of the nurse/CNM in today’s perinatal unit.
• Discuss recognition factors and appropriate management of shoulder dystocia and umbilical cord prolapse.
• Recognize complications of regional analgesia and anesthesia,
  including identification and management.
  

“Judy is a WORKING educator, Perinatal Clinical Nurse
Specialist - she shares real-life experiences and solutions!”
“TERRIFIC class - Judy really knows her stuff!”
“What a WONDERFUL class - every OB nurse should attend
her class - it’s THE BEST EVER!”
“THANK YOU! This is just what our staff needed!”
“What to look for, subtle clues, clinical cases - this class gives
us just what we NEED TO KNOW for problems & crisis!!”