Master Fetal Monitoring with Mosby’s Pocket Guide, 7th Edition

Deliver exceptional care to your patients with this portable, practical guide to intrapartum and antepartum fetal status. Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring, 7th Edition, provides a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach to fetal heart rate monitoring, making it an ideal resource for healthcare professionals in various clinical settings.

A Comprehensive Resource for Fetal Surveillance

This guide is written by a team of experts, including nurse-midwife and attorney Lisa Miller, perinatologist David Miller, and RN Susan Martin Tucker. It’s designed to be used in labor and delivery suites, antepartum inpatient units, ambulatory care settings, emergency departments, and intensive care units caring for pregnant women.

Prioritizing Patient Safety and Risk Management

The guide emphasizes patient safety and risk management strategies, featuring case study illustrations and legal commentary. You’ll find guidelines for providing safe and competent care, backed by evidence-based practice and literature.

Evidence-Based Practice for Informed Decisions

Prioritize fetal monitoring elements to make informed clinical decisions in areas such as:

• Fetal heart rate assessment
• Evaluation and interpretation
• Action planning

Descriptions of the relationship between various fetal heart rate patterns and fetal acidemia will alert you to important considerations in the care of specific conditions.

Innovative Practices for Better Outcomes

The guide covers innovative practices that support patient safety and improved quality outcomes in high-reliability perinatal units, including:

• Use of a common language for fetal heart rate patterns with a common construct for interpretation
• Emergency preparedness through multidisciplinary mock emergencies, simulations, debriefing after critical events, and exemplary practice
• Human factor issues, including a step-by-step process to improve communication, situational awareness, no-fault/just culture, teamwork, and collegiality

Consensus Guidelines and Updated Content

The guide incorporates consensus guidelines from the 2008 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) workshop report, providing standardized terminology and updates on nomenclature for uterine activity. You’ll also find new content on:

• Fetal dysrhythmias: incidence, identification, and management
• New monitor strips throughout the book
• The “Selected FHR Tracings and Cases: Interpretation and Documentation” appendix, a valuable reference tool for clinicians
• The “Obstetric Models and Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring in Europe” chapter, addressing global issues and variations in terminology, practice, and interpretation

Stay current with the latest knowledge and best practices in fetal monitoring with Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring, 7th Edition.

Series: Nursing Pocket Guides
Pages: 352
Publisher: Mosby; 7 edition (March 8, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0323083528
ISBN-13: 978-0323083522
eText ISBN: 9780323168939, 9780323083508