Labor and Delivery in Nursing

Labor and Delivery
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Introduction
Nurses have the professional obligation to make sure that they offer the best quality care to their patients at all times. Labor and delivery form part of the most crucial roles that the nurses play within the health care sector. Every day labor and delivery help bring more people into the world in the most professional manner while ensuring quality care to the mother and the child. For the millions of children that are born every day into the world, labor and delivery nurses are part of the process to ensure healthy populations across the globe. This statement cannot full express the importance of the labor and delivery nurse, relative to the sensitivity of their obligations. It is not just at the point of delivery the labor and delivery nurses come to offer their professional help to the mother and baby; rather it is a continuous process (Van Wicklin, 2010). From the first time that pregnant mothers come to the clinic, labor and delivery nurses offer their expertise and care, to the mother the child and offer support to them and their family. Labor and delivery nurses monitor the development of the baby and the mother, through the antenatal care programs, during delivery and postnatal care. This element of care is designed to make sure that the mother and the child are in the best of their health status during the pregnancy, delivery and even after the baby is born. As such, labor and delivery nurses play a very crucial role in the health and well-being of patient and their unborn child. Aspects such as breastfeeding are crucial after birth and nurses offer assistance to the mothers by giving them advice on the best practices (Van Wicklin, 2010). Labor and delivery nurses prepare the mothers, their babies and the families to the events surrounding birth, while at the same time offering the doctors assistance.
Labor and Delivery Nurses
Labor and delivery nurses play a major role in the neonatal, postpartum, intrapartum and even in the antepartum. These are important stages of life for the newborn, their mothers and the family by extension. The labor and delivery are responsible for assessing each and every mother and child and developing an individualized care plan that best delivers the best care method. They also have to collaborate with the physicians as well as health care providers to make sure that the health care plan developed involves multidisciplinary team efforts and inputs are directed towards best practices and outcomes for the mother and the child, while offering satisfaction extended to the family. Other than monitoring the mother and child, they also have the obligation of teaching their patients about their health and in reference to child birth and quality care (Van Wicklin, 2010). Different patient will have different needs and their responses to the devised care practices may vary. As such, the labor and care nurses have to ensure that they modify the individual plans of care, depending on the response of the patient and the effectiveness of the same, relative to the needs of the patient, their baby and the family members. Other than offering medical care, the labor and delivery nurses also offer their patient and their families...