Midwifery Essentials: Basics - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition

• Fully updated to provide a useful, friendly source of information
• Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care
• Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures
• Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision
• Helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion
• Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures
• Chapters designed to be read as a ‘standalone’ or in succession
• Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication

• Makes reference to the latest national and international guidelines
• Contains new scenarios to reflect recent changes in practice
• Improved layout aids retention and learning
• Fully updated throughout with the latest evidence base for clinical skills and procedures
• Embraces the principles of ‘Better Births’

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Communication

Chapter 3 Hygiene and infection control: the immobile woman

Chapter 4 Blood pressure measurement

Chapter 5 Temperature measurement

Chapter 6 Pulse and respiration

Chapter 7 Collection of specimens

Chapter 8 Urianalysis

Chapter 9 Venepuncture

Chapter 10 Neonatal blood tests

Chapter 11 Administration of medicines

Chapter 12 Administration of injections

Chapter 13 Surgical care