Maternal Child Heath Who is learning this semester?

i've listed the links i have for obstetrics. also check the "health assessment resources, techniques, and forms" thread on the nursing student assistance forum (https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/health-assessment-resources-techniques-forms-145091.html) for links to ob assessment tools that vickyrn has posted.

http://complab.nymc.edu/obgyn/obgyn.htm - list of links of lectures, forms and tutorials on a variety of ob subjects from new york medical college. you will find a link to a slide show of presentation on normal and abnormal labor. some very nice photos and drawings to illustrate points to go with the lecture material on this site.

http://www.brooksidepress.org/products/military_obgyn/home.htm and includes links to the complete online textbook, laboratory tests commonly ordered in ob/gyn, medications commonly used in ob/gyn, ultrasound and x-ray used in ob/gyn, a large number of useful clinical forms you can download and print, and access to procedure videos that include a lady partsl delivery, episiotomy, circumcision, pelvic exam, pap smear and much more.

http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/impac/images_c/normal2.gif and

http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/wha/labor.gif - good pictures of cervical effacements and dilatation during labor

http://www.childbirths.com/euniversity/mainpage.htm - the main page. links are arranged around the globe

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/obstetrics_and_gynecology.htm - listing of emedicines topics on obstetrics and gynecology

http://www.aafp.org/afp/990501ap/2487.html - interpretation of the electronic fetal heart rate during labor

http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_london_maternal_1 - online student companion website for maternal-newborn & child nursing by marcia l. london, patricia a. ladewig, jane w. ball, and ruth l. bindler. on the top menu bar of this home page is a drop down arrow where you pick a chapter of interest. once into these chapters you will find an audio glossary of obstetrical terms (you can access it here http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_london_maternal_1/0,5406,362927-,00.html ), a summary of information in each chapter of the book, nclex review questions pertinent to the information from each chapter, case study and care map activities (i did not check to see if you get any feedback as to whether or not your answers to these exercises are correct) and nursing tools that include: abbreviations used in maternity and pediatric nursing, a food guide pyramid, rdas for females during pregnancy, recommended dietary allowances, family assessment, guidelines for working with deaf clients, growth charts (10 pediatric growth charts from birth to age 20), west normogram, maternal-newborn lab values including cord blood, pediatric lab values, clinical estimation of gestational age, actions and effects of selected drugs, maternity critical pathways (for diabetes, epidural anesthesia, hemorrhage in the 3rd trimester, puerperal infection, newborn of a substance abusing mother and newborn with respiratory distress), and a whole slue of pediatric care plans (they only include goals, interventions, rationales, and expected outcomes--no nursing diagnoses). almost all are in pdf files so you need an acrobat reader to download and see these files. each chapter also provides internet links to more online information.

http://www.babycenter.com/pregnancy/childbirth/index - there are videos you can watch at this site that include comfort techniques during labor, an epidural procedure and a c-section (scroll down to the bottom of the page for the link).