cover image - Midwifery Essentials: Basics - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780702071355
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 11-07-2017
Page Count: 258
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $13.99

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

by Helen Baston, BA(Hons), MMedSci, PhD, PGDipEd, ADM, RN, RM and Jennifer Hall, EdD MSc RN RM ADM PGDip(HE) SFHEA FRCM

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cover image - Midwifery Essentials: Basics - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780702071355
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 11-07-2017
Page Count: 258
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $13.99
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New edition of a title in the popular Midwifery Essentials series originally published in conjunction with The Practising Midwife journal. The series covers core topics in midwifery education in an engaging and friendly format using a helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach which encourages readers to explore topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. effective communication, team working and health promotion. Helpful ‘scenarios’ throughout each volume encourage debate and reflection, core elements of midwifery education.
    • 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
  • 1. Introduction
    2. Communication
    3. Hygiene and infection control: the immobile woman
    4. Blood pressure measurement
    5. Temperature measurement
    6. Pulse and respiration
    7. Collection of specimens
    8. Urianalysis
    9. Venepuncture
    10. Neonatal blood tests
    11. Administration of medicines
    12. Administration of injections
    13. Surgical care

  • Helen Baston, BA(Hons), MMedSci, PhD, PGDipEd, ADM, RN, RM, Consultant Midwife Public Health, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Researcher / Lecturer, University of Sheffield; Honorary Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Jennifer Hall, EdD MSc RN RM ADM PGDip(HE) SFHEA FRCM, Independent Midwifery Educator and Researcher, Bristol, UK
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