

Midwifery Essentials: Antenatal - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 2nd Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource


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- 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
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- Makes reference to the latest national and international guidelines
- Embraces the principles of ‘Better Births’
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Models of antenatal care: the options available
Chapter 3 The booking history
Chapter 4 Health in pregnancy
Chapter 5 Monitoring maternal physical wellbeing
Chapter 6 Monitoring women’s emotional wellbeing in the antenatal period
Chapter 7 Blood tests in pregnancy
Chapter 8 Antenatal screening for fetal abnormality
Chapter 9 Monitoring fetal wellbeing during routine antenatal care
Chapter 10 Antenatal care – preparing for the birth