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Labor & Delivery Skills Checklist

A Tribute To Nurses
 

The purpose of the following checklist is to assist in matching your asd with available assignments in order to meet both your needs and the needs of our client facilities. Please select the appropriate number for each skill level, patient care situation, or type of equipment.

Level of Experience:

  1. Theory, No Practice
  2. Intermittent Experience
  3. One/Two Year Consistent Experience
  4. Very Experienced, Able to Perform Without Supervision
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AGE SPECIFIC CARE
Please indicate the level of experience with which you provide care for each age group in this specialty area.

 
A
B
C
D
Infant (Birth to 1 year)
Toddler (1-3 years)
Pre-School (3-6 years)
School Age (6-12 years)
Adolescent (12-18 years)
Young Adult (18-30 years)
Mature Adult (30-60 years)
Elderly (>60 years)

 

asd
A
B
C
D
ANTEPARTUM        
1. Assessment        
  Assess for comfort
  Breathing/relaxation techniques
  Coaching
  Positioning
 
2. Equipment & Procedures        
  Catheter insertion        
    Foley catheter
    Straight catheter
    Delivery table set - up
  Sonogram
    Amniotic fluid index
    Assist with sonogram
    Biophysical profile
    Perform sonogram
 
LABOR ASSESSMENT        
1. Fetal Assessment        
  Ausultate fetal heart rate        
    Doppler
    Fetoscope
    Determine fetal position
    Document FHR patterns
  Identify normal & treat abnormal FHR patterns        
    Baseline
    Early decelerations
    Late decelerations
    Variability
    Variable decelerations
 
2. Maternal Assessment        
  Deep tendon reflexes (DTRs)
  Edema
  Norms for prenatal vital signs
  Perform admission risk assessment
  Presence of clonus
  Progression of labor        
    Contractions characteristics
    Dilation
    Effacement
    Fetal presentation/position
    Station
    Status of membranes
    Sterile speculum exam
    Virginal exam
  Rupture of membranes        
    Fern test
    Nitrazine
 
3. Equipment & Procedures        
  Amnioinfusion (assist or perform)
    For meconium
    For variable decelerations
  Artificial rupture of membranes (assist)        
    Prolapsed cord
    Recognize potential complications
    Vasa previa
  Collect blood/urine specimens
  Collect virginal cultures        
    Chlamydia
    Fluid
    Group B strep
    Herpes
  Document labor status/assessment & interventions        
    Anticonvulsants
    Labor suppressants
  External fetal monitor application        
    Doppler
    Phono or abdominal, ECG transducer
    Tocotransducer, ultrasound
  Internal monitoring (assist or perform insertion)        
    Intrauterine pressure catheter
    Fluid filled
    Transducer tipped
    Spiral electrode
    Perform Leopold's maneuvers
    Toxicology studies
 
4. Medications        
  Administer IM/SC
  Administer IV meds/monitor IV drips        
    Antibiotics
    Antihypertensive
    Heparin
    Magnesium sulfate
    Narcotics
    Oxytocin
  Assist with prostin gel
  Cervidil insertion
  Use of Cytotec
  Use of prostin suppositories
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