Prepare for Labor and delivery with confidence

What your L&D 90-day path covers

• ✓Maternal physiologic adaptation and why normal ranges change
• ✓Antepartum assessment and the admission that sets the plan
• ✓Antepartum complications: preterm labor, bleeding and prelabor rupture
• ✓Fetal oxygenation and the physiology monitoring detects
• ✓Interpreting the intrapartum tracing and categorizing it
• ✓Intrauterine resuscitation and acting on an abnormal tracing
• ✓Antenatal fetal wellbeing and assessment before labor
• ✓The physiology of labor and what makes it progress
• ✓Second stage, descent and the birth itself
• ✓Pain, coping and non-pharmacological support in labor
• ✓The third stage and immediate postpartum period
• ✓Induction of labor: ripening, indication and consent
• ✓Oxytocin augmentation and managing uterine activity
• ✓Regional analgesia and anesthesia for birth
• ✓Operative birth: instrumental delivery and cesarean section
• ✓Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and their recognition
• ✓Severe preeclampsia, eclampsia and magnesium sulfate
• ✓Diabetes in pregnancy and glycemic control in labor
• ✓Cardiac disease, sepsis and thromboembolism in pregnancy
• ✓Postpartum hemorrhage: recognition, causes and response
• ✓Shoulder dystocia and the maneuvers that resolve it
• ✓Cord prolapse, uterine rupture and uterine inversion
• ✓Maternal collapse and amniotic fluid embolism
• ✓Normal postpartum recovery and what to assess
• ✓Secondary hemorrhage, endometritis and postpartum infection
• ✓Perineal trauma, thromboprophylaxis and perinatal mental health
• ✓Lactation, feeding support and the first weeks
• ✓Transition at birth and the first minutes of life
• ✓Newborn assessment, thermoregulation and early problems
• ✓Neonatal resuscitation at birth
• ✓Uterotonics and tocolytics: the drugs that act on the uterus
• ✓Magnesium, antihypertensives and analgesia in obstetrics
• ✓Antenatal corticosteroids, antibiotics and anti-D
• ✓Patient safety on the labor unit: bundles, drills and escalation
• ✓Communication, consent and documentation in maternity
• ✓Bereavement, difficult outcomes and the professional role

Start with a free gap analysis

Before you study anything, AscendRN's gap analysis shows you exactly where you stand across the ten competencies that matter for labor and delivery — patient assessment, pharmacology, prioritization, and more. You find your gaps here, in minutes, instead of at the bedside. Then your path adapts to close them.

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