Synopsis

Created especially for nurses, the Clinical Decision Making series helps to bridge the gap between content knowledge and clinical application. Case Studies in Maternity & Women's Health is the first installment in this innovative series, which provides over forty maternity and women's health case histories, questions, and responses based on real life client situations. Every case contains an introductory "blueprint" of variables that must be considered while evaluating a particular scenario, which are pertinent concerning the client, nursing protocol, and setting of care. Examples of these variables include age, gender, or culture of the client, the client with a pre-existing condition, legal issues, or communication skills. Each blueprint and case is different, just as each clinical situation is unique to others. By allowing learners to simulate the actual decision-making process, they can gain a comfort level to make informed clinical judgments that will help them become successful nurses. Quite simply, Clinical Decision Making shortens the distance between the classroom and nursing practice like no other educational tool.

Biography

Diann S. Gregory, BSN, MEd, CNM, ARNP is a full professor at Miami Dade College. She has been teaching midwifery for over 12 years and associate degree nursing for over 16 years. She taught in the BSN program at the University of Miami and served as a preceptor for students in their masters in nursing program.
She began her nursing career in 1969 as an Army Nurse Corp captain in Vietnam. While in Vietnam, she received a Bronze Star for her work in surgery and her volunteer work in the local Vietnamese orphanage. Highlights of her nursing career include extensive experience in staff, community and patient education, private consulting work for hospitals in the areas of quality assurance and risk management, and serving as a legal expert in maternity care.
She has presented at several national conferences including the American College of Nurse Midwives and the National Conference on Innovations in Technology and has participated in the development of educational programs.
Ms. Gregory has received the three year endowed teaching chair on three different occasions and the NISOD award for teaching excellence from the University of Texas twice. She was a finalist in The Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning, an annual national award that recognizes outstanding faculty who connect classroom work with service to the community. She was recognized for her work with pregnant teens with the Dade Partners Exemplary Award Honorable Mention for regional/QAVAEDP for 2001-2002 for service learning projects and was instrumental in obtaining a grant for $100,000 a year for three years to train doulas for the community.