title: Touching the high-risk obstetrical patient.
abstract: Nurses are reminded that there is a patient, rather than just an array of technical marvels, in the intensive care labor unit. Practical measures for promoting the patient's physical ease are outlined, and the meaning of support is reviewed.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000451:nursing*; D014110:Touch