cover image - Skills for Midwifery Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702081934
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 02-10-2022
Page Count: 384
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $39.99

Skills for Midwifery Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition

by Ruth Bowen, BA(Hons) RGN RM and Wendy Taylor, BSc (Hons) MSc RN RM

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Skills for Midwifery Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780702081934
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 02-10-2022
Page Count: 384
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $39.99
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Skills for Midwifery Practice is the go-to book for all midwifery students who need to learn what to do in a range of situations, how to perform a skill, and why they need to do it in a certain way.

Written by midwifery educators Ruth Johnson and Wendy Taylor, the book makes learning easy with background information, learning outcomes, helpful diagrams and lists to represent the skill flow. It explains the underlying physiology associated with pregnancy and childbirth, and clearly defines the nature and extent of current practice.

This version is fully updated and referenced throughout to provide a detailed evidence base to support learning and further study. It is ideal for midwives in training, qualified midwives returning to practice, as well as other members of the obstetric healthcare team.

    • Clear and logical – easy to follow and understand for training midwives
    • Accurate, up-to-date evidence base that is relevant to contemporary midwifery practice
    • Each skill contextualized with background, indications and contraindications to support both clinical practice and study
    • Learning objectives and end-of-chapter self-assessment exercises allow readers to monitor their progress
    New to this edition
    • Latest guidelines and standards
    • New information on resuscitation and other emergencies
    • Now in full color throughout
    • Expanded chapter on the use of standard precautions in light of the global pandemic
    • Developed discussion of alternative feeding methods
    • Latest guidelines and standards
    • New information on resuscitation and other emergencies
    • Now in full color throughout
    • Expanded chapter on the use of standard precautions in light of the global pandemic
    • Developed discussion of alternative feeding methods
  • 1. Principles of abdominal examination: during pregnancy and labour
    2. Principles of abdominal examination: during the postnatal period
    3. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: temperature measurement
    4. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: pulse measurement
    5. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: blood pressure measurement
    6. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: respiration
    7. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: neurological assessment
    8. Principles of infection control: standard precautions
    9. Principles of infection control: hand hygiene
    10. Principles of infection control: principles of asepsis
    11. Principles of infection control: obtaining swabs
    12. Principles of hygiene needs: for the woman
    13. Principles of hygiene needs: for the baby
    14. Principles of elimination management: micturition and catheterization
    15. Principles of elimination management: urinalysis
    16. Principles of elimination management: defaecation
    17. Principles of elimination management: obtaining urinary and stool specimens
    18. Principles of drug administration: legal aspects, pharmacokinetics and anaphylaxis
    19. Principles of drug administration: oral administration
    20. Principles of drug administration: injection technique
    21. Principles of drug administration: administration of medicines per vaginam
    22. Principles of drug administration: administration of medicines per rectum
    23. Principles of drug administration: intravenous drug administration
    24. Principles of drug administration: inhalational analgesia: Entonox
    25. Principles of drug administration: epidural analgesia
    26. Principles of drug administration: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
    27. Facilitation of skills related to childbearing: optimal fetal positioning
    28. Facilitation of skills related to childbearing: Cusco speculum use
    29. Facilitation of skills related to childbearing: membrane sweep
    30. Principles of intrapartum skills: first-stage issues
    31. Principles of intrapartum skills: second-stage issues
    32. Principles of intrapartum skills: third-stage issues
    33. Principles of intrapartum skills: examination of the placenta
    34. Principles of intrapartum skills: perineal repair
    35. Principles of intrapartum skills: management of birth at home
    36. Principles of intrapartum skills: management of labour and birth in water
    37. Assessment of the baby: assessment at birth
    38. Assessment of the baby: daily examination
    39. Assessment of the baby: capillary sampling
    40. Assessment of the baby: developmental dysplasia of the hips
    41. Principles of infant nutrition: breastfeeding
    42. Principles of infant nutrition: cup feeding
    43. Principles of infant nutrition: decontamination of feeding equipment
    44. Principles of infant nutrition: formula feeding
    45. Principles of infant nutrition: nasogastric feeding
    46. Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: maternal venepuncture
    47. Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: intravenous cannulation
    48. Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: intravenous infusion
    49. Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous infusion: blood transfusion
    50. Principles of manual handling
    51. Principles of perioperative skills
    52. Principles of wound management: healing and care
    53. Principles of restricted mobility management: pressure area care
    54. Principles of restricted mobility management: prevention of venous thromboembolism
    55. Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: maternal resuscitation
    56. Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: neonatal resuscitation
    57. Glossary

  • Ruth Bowen, BA(Hons) RGN RM, Supervisor of Midwives, Formerly Senior Lecturer Midwifery, University of Hertfordshire, now Clinical Midwife, UK and Wendy Taylor, BSc (Hons) MSc RN RM, Formerly Senior Lecturer Midwifery,
    University of Hertfordshire,
    now Clinical Midwifery Educator in Whangarei, New Zealand
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