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CREST
Oakland
Community College |
Labor and Delivery (OB) Objectives
The student performing clinical shifts in the Labor and Delivery area will:
| 1. | Properly assess Labor and Delivery patients using accepted interview and clinical assessment techniques |
| 2. | Assist all staff as needed in any activities which fall under the student’s scope of practice |
| 3. | Assist in vaginal and/or caesarian births, including delivery of the placenta |
| 4. | Demonstrate proper treatments and interventions for patients in labor, including but not limited to: oxygen administration, proper positioning, EKG application, and assistance with medicine administration |
| 5. | Assess neonates after delivery with proper techniques including APGAR evaluation, vital signs, suctioning, and performing BVM ventilations and or chest compressions if required |
| 6. | Properly clamp and cut the umbilical cord |
| 7. | Correctly assess and treat any complications the arise in the labor and delivery patient such as vaginal bleeding |
| 8. | Recognize and properly treat complications of labor and delivery patients, including but not limited to: breech presentation, prolapsed umbilical cord, limb presentation, multiple births, premature births, meconium staining, ectopic pregnancy, preeclampsia, eclampsia, seizures, miscarriage and abortion, traumatic injuries, and stillbirth |