by Rebecca Dekker | Jul 17, 2012 | Evidence based practice
July 17, 2012 by Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN, APRN © Copyright Evidence Based Birth®. Please see disclaimer and terms of use. I’ve written before about the lack of evidence for continuous electronic fetal monitoring, but recently I felt the need to write further on this...
by Rebecca Dekker | Jul 10, 2012 | Evidence based practice
July 10, 2012 by Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN, APRN © Copyright Evidence Based Birth®. Please see disclaimer and terms of use. Home birth is a common occurrence for women in some countries, such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. However, in the U.S., home births...
by Rebecca Dekker | Jul 3, 2012 | Evidence based practice, Uncategorized
July 3, 2012 by Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN, APRN © Copyright Evidence Based Birth®. Please see disclaimer and terms of use. This question was submitted to me by one of my readers, Sarah. “I have a question about gestational diabetes. It seems like everyone I know who has...
by Rebecca Dekker | May 30, 2012 | Evidence based practice
A saline lock (sometimes called a “hep-lock” for historic reasons), is an intravenous (IV) catheter that is threaded into a peripheral vein, flushed with saline, and then capped off for later use. This way you are not hooked up to an IV pole, but the nurses have easy...
by Rebecca Dekker | May 5, 2012 | Evidence based practice
May 5, 2012 by Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN, APRN © CopyrightEvidence Based Birth®. Please see disclaimer and terms of use. **For an updated article on continuous electronoic fetal monitoring, please view this article instead, “Evidence-Based Fetal Monitoring”...
