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    Neonatal Nursing: Clinical Competencies and Education Guide, 6th Edition
    This educational guide will help nurses and hospitals get the framework that identifies the specialized body of knowledge, skills, and competencies integral to evidence-based neonatal nursing practice.  The 6th edition will provide the Who, What, Where, and How of Neonatal Nursing Practice.  

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    Nursing care of the Woman Receiving Regional Analgesia/Anesthesia in Labor Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline, 2nd Ed.
    This updated guideline provides evidence-based clinical practice recommendations for nursing assessment and monitoring of women undergoing neuraxial, or regional, analgesia and anesthesia during labor that will help nurses provide the best possible patient care. Guidelines for assessment of the woman's readiness for labor analgesia are presented with referenced rationales. 

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    Cultural Competence an Essential Journey for Perinatal Nurse
    Provides information that assists nurses in caring for the increasingly diverse populations presenting to their practices.  Includes basic concepts related to the study of culture, including communication, religion and gender roles, and the application of these concepts in perinatal nursing care. 

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    Compendium of Postpartum Care, Second Edition
    The second edition of the best-selling Compendium provides essential information for nurses caring for women, infants, and families in all patient care settings. Included are comprehensive and updated practice guidelines for postpartum care that address the physical, emotional, psychosocial, and developmental needs of families from birth through three months postpartum.
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    Breastfeeding Support: Prenatal Care Through the First year
    The second edition highlights AWHONN's continued commitment to promoting evidence-based nursing practice and supporting breastfeeding as the optimal method of infant feeding for term, preterm and vulnerable infants.  A new and essential feature of the revised guideline is a dedicated section that includes recommendations for breastfeeding promotion and support for preterm and vulnerable newborns and their mothers.

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    Nursing Care and Management of the 2nd Stage of Labor,2nd Edition
    This updated second edition guideline provides important research-based recommendations for alternative methods of nursing management of the second stage of labor, including the rationale for and importance of upright positioning and delayed and non-directed pushing to facilitate the birth process. 

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    Fetal Heart Rate Auscultation 2nd Edition, UPDATED
    This practice monograph describes how to perform fetal heart rate auscultation and discusses the benefits and limitations of intermittent auscultation (IA). Fetal heart rate auscultation has been a method of fetal assessment for centuries but the practice declined with the introduction of electronic fetal monitoring. This monograph discusses the knowledge to date about IA as a primary method of fetal surveillance during labor.
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    High Touch Nursing Care During Labor DVD
    This evidence-based video series produced in conjuntion with Injoy Videos shows what textbooks can't: the softer side of nursing care. Perfect for training new staff or refreshing experienced nurses, High-Touch presents many ways to integrate physical comfort measures, emotional support, information giving, and advocacy into everyday practice. Supportive nursing care can lead to more positive birth experiences and an increase in patient satisfaction.

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    Assessment & Care of the Late Preterm Infant Guideline, 2010
    Assessment and Care of the Late Preterm Infant Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline is the only comprehensive evidence-based resource developed to guide nursing care of the late preterm infant. Nurses and other health care providers can use this guideline to structure bedside care, provide staff education and to educate parents about their late preterm infants.

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    Improving Neonatal Skin Care, 2nd Edition. Presentation Package     

    Improving Neonatal Skin Care, 2nd Edition, is an educational presentation package that provides nurses and other health care professionals up-to-date, research-based clinical information on supplying care appropriate to the unique needs of neonatal skin. With this all-inclusive package you will help ensure staff in all nursery settings, including normal, special care and NICU nurseries, provide neonatal skin care based on the latest evidence and research.

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    Perioperative Care of the Pregnant Woman

    The current rate of cesarean birth means that more OB nurses must also be competent as OR nurses. This guideline answers the needs of perinatal nurses who have been seeking guidance from AWHONN to help them provide safer, more consistent and higher quality care to their pregnant patients who require surgical procedures, including cesareans.

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    Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders Case Studies Research     

    A family can be disrupted after the birth of a child when the mother experiences postpartum mood and anxiety disorders.  This monograph includes information on risk factors that increase the chances of a mother developing postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, primary prevention interventions, secondary prevention interventions, screening scales for identifying women, and nursing interventions.

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    Hyperbilirubinemia: Identification and Management in Healthy Term and Near-Term Newborn, 2nd Edition     

    Most newborns develop some degree of hyperbilirubinemia in the first week of life. However, some of these newborns may develop severe hyperbilirubinemia that can lead to acute bilirubin encephalopathy which may, in turn, become the chronic condition, kernicterus or even lead to death.  A systematic approach that identifies newborns at risk for severe hyperbilirubinemia and ensures proper follow-up and treatment is key to preventing kernicterus.

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    Preterm Infants: Transition to Home and Follow-Up     

    Describes discharge management, transition to home and postdischarge issues for preterm infants and their families. Emphasizes family-centered care principles to enhance parental confidence and competence. Focuses on preterm infants, including infants discharged on medications, infants requiring short-term technological support and late preterm infants.

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