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Nursing Certifications

This guide supports nurses pursuing nationally recognized board certification in various specialties by linking to library holdings or websites that help nurses prepare for certification exams.

Electronic Fetal Monitoring Certification

Electronic Fetal Monitoring Certification (C-EFM)
Certifying Body:  National Certification Corporation

Reference List

ACOG, Management of intrapartum fetal heart rate tracings, Practice Bulletin, No. 116, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Obstetrics & Gynecology 2010 (Reaffirmed 2019); 116:1232–40.

Cunningham, et al., Williams’ Obstetrics, McGraw Hill, 2022.

Landon, et al., Gabbe’s Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 8th ed., Elsevier, 2021.

Lyndon, et al., Fetal Heart Monitoring Principles and Practices, AWHONN, Kendall Hunt, 2021. (Request through DDS.)

Menihan, et al., Electronic Fetal Monitoring Concepts and Applications, 3rd ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2019.

Miller, et al., Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 9th ed., Mosby Elsevier, 2022.

NCC Monograph: Fetal Assessment and Safe Labor Management, Simpson, Kathleen, NCC, 2021. (Free download through NCC website.)

Simpson, et al., AWHONN’s Perinatal Nursing, 5th ed, Wolters Kluwer, 2021.

Resnik, et al., Creasy & Resnik’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine Principles and Practice, Elsevier, 2022. (This link is to the 7th edition. Access the 9th edition by DDS request.)