Tools and Products

Family-Centered Maternity Care is an achievable goal, and we can help you reach it. Our products help you train existing staff and hire staff who truly value family-centered care, ensure program efficiency, and communicate the values of your FCMC program to the families in your community.

Maternity Unit Policies and Procedures for LDR and Mother-Baby Care

  • This invaluable resource includes over 100 maternity unit policies and procedures. We provide the material on disk so you can easily amend it to meet your hospital's standards.

The Family-Centered Maternity Nursing Screening Tool

  • "When I hire a nurse, how can I know whether or not my new employee will have a family-centered attitude?"

  • "What can I do to find out whether a nurse candidate is family-centered before making the final decision to hire?"

  • Match your staff to your needs by screening for excellence in family-centered maternity nursing practice.

Single-Room Maternity Care and Mother-Baby Marketing Tools

  • 9 ads, 10 newsletters - for mothers throughout pregnancy and the first months postpartum, plus a special issue for grieving parents - and 5 columns appropriate for newspaper, brochure, or web site copy. All text and art are provided on disk; you can modify the material to best promote your center.

  • Phillips+Fenwick staff is also available to consult on developing a comprehensive campaign for your maternity program.

Award Winning books and resources

The ten principles of Family-Centered Maternity Care are explained in great detail in Dr. Phillips award winning text, Family-Centered Maternity Care. Information about these principles is available here on this web site. Copies of this book are available from Amazon.com, or directly from Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

2003 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!

This seminal text provides everything nurses, physicians, and educators need to develop a Family-Centered Maternity program in their practice or facility. It offers a complete look at Family-Centered Maternity Care (FCMC), covering the history and evolution, and antepartum and intrapartum care for normal and at-risk pregnancies. It also provides examples for developing FCMC programs in hospitals, sample forms, policies and procedures for implementing such programs, and even assessment criteria for hospitals to evaluate their level of compliance with FCMC standards.