Overcoming the challenges: Maternal movement and positioning to facilitate labor progress

MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 72-78

  Zwelling, Elaine ^a  

^a Hill Rom Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth; Childbirth; Labor, first stage; Labor, second stage; Maternal positioning; Maternal postures; Maternity nursing; Obstetrical nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CESAREAN SECTION; DYSTOCIA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; LABOR STAGE 2; MATERNAL WELFARE; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

CESAREAN SECTION; DYSTOCIA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MATERNAL WELFARE; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTURE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77949372703     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMC.0b013e3181caeab3     Document Type: Article

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