Johns Hopkins Hospital
Gynecology and Obstetrics

Recommended Textbooks

• OB Admin Office:

  • Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 5th ed., 2015 (LWW, Ovid)
  • AWHONN Perinatal Nursing, 4th ed., Simpson and Creehan, 2014
  • Mosby's Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Lisa A. Miller CNM JD, David Miller and Susan Martin Tucker MSN RN PHN (Mar 8, 2012)
    
    
• JHU Welch Library (online)
  • AWHONN Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing, Fifth Edition.
  • AWHONN Core Curriculum for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, Fifth Edition
  • Gilbert et al, Manual of High Risk Pregnancy and Delivery, 5th ed., 2011
  • Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing and Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 9th ed., 2012
  • Intrapartum Management Modules: A Perinatal Education Program 4th ed., 2009 
  • Gabbe Obstetrics : Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 6th ed., 2012
  • Creasy and Resnik's Maternal-Fetal Medicine : Principles and Practice, 2014
    
    

Practice Exam / Questions

• CCPR Inpatient Obstetrics -This test has 175 questions. The practice test uses the same format as a certification exam. ($ 52.00)
  
  

Review Courses/Conference/Seminars ($$$)

• Inpatient Obstetrics Review Course - This is a 2-day seminar that offers a review for the exam.. The course is sponsored by Professional Education Center.
• PeriFACTS® Online Modules - "Essentials of Inpatient Obstetric Nursing Care" program is designed for nurses who are preparing for or maintaining their RNC-OB certification
  

Additional Resources

• Pharmacology
  • Oxytocin
  • Induction of Labor
• Medical Disease and Pregnancy
  • Cardiac Disease
  • Hypertension
  • Pregestational Diabetes
  • Thrombocytopenia
  • Thromboembolism
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
  • Addiction and Substance Use
  • Intimate Partner Violence
• Fetal Monitoring
  • ACOG Management of intrapartum fetal heart rate tracings. Practice Bulletin, No. 116. American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Obstetrics & Gynecology 2010;116:1232–40.
  • ACOG Antepartum fetal surveillance: Practice Bulletin, No. 146. American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Obstetrics & Gynecology 2014;124:182-92.
  • ACNM Clinical Bulletin (2010) - Intermittent Auscultation for Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Surveillance.
    
  • AWHONN Position Statement 2015 - Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
• Obstetrical Complications
  • Preterm Labor
  • Premature Rupture of Membranes
  • Late Term and Postterm Pregnancy
  • Placenta Previa, Placenta Acreta, Vasa Previa
  • Hemorrhage
  • Fetal Growth Restriction

The NCC certification exam is a national exam and staff will be allowed to take the exam only twice in one year, which begins from the date of the first exam.

Computer testing is available all year around.   Testing occurs in 90 day cycles starting on the 5th and 20th of each month. Visit the NCC website for details.