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For generalized Mother/Baby nursing I can recommend this one, it's in a very easy to use outline form, and very comprehensive:
Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing
From AWHONN by Judy Mattson and Judy Smith
I have a copy myself. Easy and ready reference!
PLEASE NOTE: make sure you purchase the edition published in June, 2004, if you feel your are interested.
I can also recommend other books by AWHONN, as well
Intrapartum Management Modules
For more specific info about neonatal intensive care:
hope these help.
ljds
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I have browsed through the sticky on recommended reading, and while it was helpful, it was also a bit overwhelming.
I am an LPN with several years experience in an out of hospital birth setting as an OB office nurse, L&D nurse, postpartum nurse, and baby nurse (we nurses wear all the hats in this particular birth center). I am now going back to school to get my BSN, and so will soon start to work prn for an agency, where I will be placed in post partum/mother baby, and the nursery (level I).
I am very experienced in some aspects of post partum care and newborn care, and hardly at all in others. I would really like a good, thorough, clinical book on mother/baby nursing. I feel like my mother/baby text from nursing school, besides being 6 years old, isn't specific enough in many instances. If your recommended book had information about common drugs used in the post partum/nursery settings, it would be a bonus.
Thanks in advance!
Lori