Looking for very specific book recommendations

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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

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

For generalized Mother/Baby nursing I can recommend this one, it's in a very easy to use outline form, and very comprehensive:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/072160322X/qid=1123561017/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103-1280392-9503803

Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing

From AWHONN by Judy Mattson and Judy Smith

I have a copy myself. Easy and ready reference!

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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

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=In0Ri5JAu6&isbn=0781732379&TXT=Y&itm=1

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For more specific info about neonatal intensive care:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=In0Ri5JAu6&isbn=0721674895&TXT=Y&itm=2

hope these help.

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Thanks! I've been looking at the sticky, checking out the options on half.com an amazon, but I so few have reviews, I wanted to hear what nurses who actually work in the field found helpful.

Lori

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well i have 8 years in it....I can give you a truckload of suggestions, from entertainment, to continuing education, to handy pocket guides.

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Hi, I am transferring from PCU to a Mother-Baby Unit and would love to find a good pocket guide.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!

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