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Inpatient Obstetric Nursing Standards of Practice and Certification Review
November 21 & 22, 2022
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Zoom Online Meeting

Learner Outcome: Participants will be able to apply current standards of care in inpatient obstetric nursing to selected situations, in accordance with the NCC standards of care for inpatient obstetric nursing.

Objectives:
  • Recognize maternal disease processes, pregnancy risk factors, treatment modalities and complications that impact the maternal/fetus/newborn.
  • Identify the methods used in fetal assessment surveillance interpretation.
  • Discuss appropriate interventions for identified abnormal findings during maternal/fetal assessment.
  • Recognize maternal/fetal responses that indicate appropriate responses to nursing interventions.
  • Identify abnormal physiological changes indicating obstetrical complications in maternal and or fetal assessment.
  • Discuss appropriate nursing interventions, related to course of treatment for selected obstetrical complications.
  • Identify the characteristics and phases of labor.
  • Describe the characteristics of uteroplacental physiology.
  • Recognize psychosocial concerns that affect the laboring patient.
  • Recognize the variables in the labor process that require obstetrical procedures and the effect on the maternal/fetus/newborn.
  • Discuss alternatives to natural childbirth with nursing interventions and maternal/fetus/newborn implications.
  • Describe the normal physiological changes during the post-partum/newborn period.
  • Describe the most common post-partum complications.
  • Discuss nursing interventions to prevent/minimize complications.
  • Discuss physiological changes that occur with neonatal adaptation to extrauterine life.
  • Define factors that inhibit adaptation to extrauterine life.
  • Discuss continuing assessments, interventions and documentation required for continuity of care.
  • Discuss ethical principles and legal issues surrounding the maternal/fetal/neonatal dyad.