The staff of the Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital Labor and Delivery and High Risk combined units are committed to the care of obstetrical triage, antepartum, intrapartum, peri-operative, postpartum and peri-anesthesia women, their fetuses, and their newborns, in a setting of general and moderate nursing care and an environment that supports and empowers families. Common diagnoses include labor; vaginal or assisted singleton/higher-order multiple birth; procedural pre- and post-anesthesia; obstetric, fetal, and gynecological surgical procedures; newborn transition; fetal complications; fetal demise; electronic fetal/uterine activity monitoring; pain, comfort, and coping management; identification of and intervention with labor, and complex obstetric, medical, and surgical complications impacting the childbearing woman and her fetus(s).
Perinatal Nurses provide direct and individualized nursing care to patients based on the application of scientific nursing principles. Nurses work in collaboration with, and provide direction and delegation with, clerical staff, patient care technicians, and surgical technologists. In addition to general nursing care, responsibilities of Perinatal Nurses include (but are not limited to) the VVWH Nursing Standards of Care, AORN Standards, ASPAN Standards, AWHONN Standards; upholding the Mission, Vision, and Values of Michigan Medicine; supporting all policies, guidelines, procedures and processes; and participating in professional leadership opportunities on the unit (i.e. participation in unit committees, charge nurse, new employee orientation precepting, teaching classes and inservices, etc.).