Overview of labor / E. Jean Martin and Betsy B. Kennedy -- Maternal and fetal response to labor / E. Jean Martin and Betsy B. Kennedy -- Admission assessment of the laboring woman / E. Jean Martin and Donna Jean Ruth -- Admission assessment of the fetus / E. Jean Martin and Donna Jean Ruth -- Caring for the laboring woman / E. Jean Martin and Donna Jean Ruth -- Intrapartum fetal monitoring / Donna Jean Ruth -- Induction and augmentation of labor / Marcella T. Hickey and Donna Jean Ruth -- Caring for the woman at risk for preterm labor or with premature rupture of membranes / Elizabeth A. Fritz and Nancy Webster Smith -- Caring for the laboring woman with hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy / E. Jean Martin and Judith H. Poole -- Caring for the laboring woman with HIV infection or AIDS / Francilla A. Thomas and Kelly Gee -- Hepatitis infections / E. Jean Martin and Donna Jean Ruth -- Caring for the pregnant woman with diabetes / Mary Copeland Myers -- Delivery in the absence of a primary care provider / Marcella T. Hickey and Elisabeth D. Howard -- Assessment of the newborn and newly delivered mother / Ann Mogabgab Weathersby, Penny Waugh, and Erin Rodgers -- Liability issues in intrapartum nursinng / Betsy B. Kennedy, Suzanne M. Baird, and Marcella T. Hickey -- Maternal transport / E. Jean Martin and Susan B. Drummond -- Intimate partner violence during pregnancy / Betsy B. Kennedy -- Intrapartum emergencies / Suzanne M. Baird and Betsy B. Kennedy -- Caring for the woman undergoing an instrumented or operative delivery / Betsy B. Kennedy and Sarah Brannan.