Module 6 – Cesarean Birth and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)

• Nursing care provided for a cesarean birth in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases.
• A systematic review of post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) standards and maternal postoperative assessment, potential complications and nursing care recommendations.
•  PACU Discharge recovery Scoring Tool
• Potential complications in the immediate post anesthesia care recovery period after cesarean birth.

Module 11 Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care

• Normal physiologic and psychological changes that occur after birth.
• Normal from abnormal postpartum emotional changes.
• Causes  symptoms, and management of potential postpartum complications.
• Expanded content on patient discharge education and POST-BIRTH Discharge Education tool with an emphasis on improving maternal safety.
• Expanded content on postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) including QBL from the PPH Project.

Newborn Assessment and Nursing Care

• Includes all newborn content including discharge planning
• Updates on newborn skin care and procedural pain management

Content includes:

• Video on newborn physical assessment and reflexes
• Skin-to-skin care, breastfeeding, and infant nutrition
• Infant self-attachment and the breast crawl, sudden postnatal collapse of the newborn, and updates on safe sleep