OB for ED nurses

[Cleveland ED Nurse]

One of our hospitals is closing their OB department and the ED nurses are in a panic. Can anyone recommend educational resources for the ED nurse faced with an imminent delivery? (Prefer multimedia vs. book)

[NPinWCH]

When they closed my unit, a few of us OB nurses put together a crash course for the ER staff. I'm also an NRP instructor and we certified all the ER staff as well. Since the ER inherited our equipment it worked out for us to show them how it all worked.

In reality, a year later the ER has yet to deliver even one, though we thought they would have delivered several.

[rjflyn, ASN, RN]

NRP is about all we got at the ED I worked at where our systems OB was located in a building about a mile down the street. As it was the docs and clinics were pretty good at instructing moms to go there when appropriate, in 4 years I personally only had to deliver a placenta- mom had delivered in the car. Any pt greater than 20 wks was given a courtesy look over by the ED docs and the transported EMS at hospital expense for OB evaluation per policy.

[OBRN2011]

You can try the AWHONN website. This is the resource for all ob nursing. I know they offer educational materials including multimedia.