Obstetrical nursing
Obstetrical nursing, also called perinatal nursing, is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are attempting to become pregnant, are currently pregnant, or are recently delivered. Obstetrical nurses help provide prenatal care and testing, care of patients experiencing pregnancy complications, care during labor and delivery, and care of patients following delivery. Obstetrical nurses work closely with obstetricians, midwives, and nurse practitioners. They also provide supervision of patient care technicians and surgical technologists
Obstetrical nurses perform postoperative care on a surgical unit, stress test evaluations, cardiac monitoring, vascular monitoring, and health assessments. Obstetrical nurses must possess specialized skills including electronic fetal monitoring, nonstress tests, neonatal resuscitation, and medication administration by continuous intravenous drip.
Obstetrical nurses work in many different environments, including, medical offices, prenatal clinics, labor & delivery units, antepartum units, postpartum units, operating theatres, and clinical research.
In the U.S. and Canada, the professional nursing organization for obstetrical nurses is the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN).
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Certification for obstetrical nurses
The National Certification Corporation (NCC) offer certifications for obstetrical nurses. These include RNC-OB (Inpatient Obstetrics) this certification that allows graduate nurses who have competes a bachelor degree in the US or Canada, who want to expand into Obstetrics. It is an online exam that costs around $325 and by the end of it you will gain you RNC-OB Certificate.,[1] RNC-MNN (Maternal Newborn Nursing),is another online exam that is for certified registered nurses, who have completed their bachelor's degree in Nursing and have gained experienced in the area of newborn nursing, and are wanting to gain a certification/qualification in the area. The test costs around $325 and you have a 90 day window to complete the actual exam[2] and C-EFM (Electronic Fetal Monitoring). This certification like the other two is an online citification exam, for US and Canadian graduate nursing students. To do the online certification you must be either a licensed a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, physician,physician assistant or paramedic, according to the US and Canada requirements.[3]
Australian Certification and Requirements
To become an Obstetrical nurse/ perinatal nurse in Australia, you must have a bachelor’s degree in either nursing and/or midwifery. In Australia alone there is 32 different universities that offer Nursing as an undergraduate degree including Australian Catholic university, Charles Darwin University and The university of Notre Dame Australia.[4] once completing your degree, you must complete you masters of nursing. In order to be accepted for the master’s degree you must obtain a bachelor’s degree and be a licences nurse/midwife. There is 24 different universities in Australia that offer a masters in Nursing, including Edith Cowan University, Monash University, James Cook University and University of Canberra.[5]
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