Maternal Newborn Antepartum Assessment & Fetal Surveillance Compass Cards + Audio Companion

Keep the key ideas in antepartum assessment & fetal surveillance close at hand with 15 Compass Cards. Each focused review page brings a concept together with the findings that help you recognize it and its nursing connection. These digital cards support short review sessions, explaining a concept aloud, and revisiting topics that need another pass. They complement the longer Trail Guide while giving you a compact way to review the subject.

Organize maternal assessment before selecting or interpreting surveillance. Follow fetal growth and movement patterns without treating one result as a diagnosis. Distinguish ultrasound, fluid assessment, NST, CST, BPP, and Doppler studies. Designed for nursing-school study, the material can be used independently or alongside your course and clinical learning.

What You Will Learn

• Organize maternal assessment before selecting or interpreting surveillance.
• Follow fetal growth and movement patterns without treating one result as a diagnosis.
• Distinguish ultrasound, fluid assessment, NST, CST, BPP, and Doppler studies.
• Recognize reactive and nonreactive NST concepts and CST terminology.
• Verify signal quality and communicate findings and needed follow-up.

Table of Contents

• Antepartum Surveillance
• Maternal Assessment
• Fundal Height
• Leopold Maneuvers
• Fetal Movement
• Obstetric Ultrasound
• Amniotic Fluid Assessment
• Nonstress Test
• Reactive NST
• Nonreactive NST
• Contraction Stress Test
• CST Results
• Biophysical Profile
• Modified BPP
• Doppler Flow Study