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Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (Acls) And Obstetrical Critical Care (Ob Cc) Education For High Risk Labor And Delivery Nurses In Caring For Growing Population Of High Risk Patients, Tracey E. Mcmillan
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Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) and Obstetrical Critical Care (OB CC) education for high risk Labor and Delivery nurses in caring for growing population of high risk patients
Tracey E. McMillan RNC, BSN
Clinical Nurse III
Labor and Delivery Unit Coordinator
BACKGROUND: Many studies show that an increasing number of pregnant women in the United States have chronic health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and chronic heart disease. The factors that place a pregnancy at risk can be divided into four categories: existing health conditions, age, lifestyle factors and conditions of pregnancy. The recent statistics from the Centers for Disease …