Loving Care from Skilled Professionals
Obstetrics nurses in the Childbirth Center at St. Clare deliver today's science with such love and concern that one can almost forget the nurses are highly skilled medical professionals. Many local doctors describe them as part nurses and part midwives.
Originally, nurses received little or no preparation for assisting in childbirth. The same was true of midwives, who have assisted women in giving birth since ancient times. Midwives still deliver more than two-thirds of the world's infants. In Western countries, however, advances in obstetrics and gynecology meant childbearing shifted from the home to the hospital by the early 1900s.
Today, technological advances in medicine and health have required nurses to be knowledgeable about sophisticated equipment, learn about an increasing number of medications and design care appropriate for a health-care delivery system that's undergoing rapid change.
Nurses in the obstetrics field deal with pregnancy, labor and the time immediately following childbirth. They also become involved in the psychological and social aspects of childbearing. Nurses in the Childbirth Center at St. Clare Hospital and Health Services have extensive training. These are just some of the highlights from their professional training, certifications and memberships: Neonatal Advanced Life Support; Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics; Electronic Fetal Monitoring; Lactation Consultant; Certified Childbirth Educators; Cardiopulmonary, Resuscitation Instructors; Counselors for "Resolve through Bereavement" Labor and Delivery Competency; Post Partum Competency; Nursery Competency; Members of the Wisconsin Association of Perinatal Care; and Members of Association of Womens Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.
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