"Pit to distress": Is this an evidence-based strategy?

Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 302-304

  Tillett, Jackie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIC AGENT; OXYTOCIN;

DRUG MONITORING; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; NOTE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; STIMULATION;

DRUG MONITORING; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, INDUCED; MIDWIFERY; NURSE'S ROLE; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 81855167429     PISSN: 08932190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JPN.0b013e318234c411     Document Type: Note

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