Skills for Midwifery Practice Australian & New Zealand edition - E-Book, 2nd Edition

PART 1: GENERAL SKILLS

Section 1: Principles of infection control
Chapter 1: Standard Precautions and hand hygiene
Chapter 2: Asepsis
Chapter 3: Principles of hygiene needs

Section 2: Vital signs
Chapter 4: Temperature
Chapter 5: Pulse
Chapter 6: Respiration
Chapter 7: Blood pressure
Chapter 8: Neurological assessment

Section 3: Screening and Testing
Chapter 9: Screening tests
Chapter 10: Venepuncture
Chapter 11: Cannulation
Chapter 12: Obtaining Swabs
Chapter 13: Use of Speculum
Chapter 14: Capillary sampling

Section 4: Principles of elimination management
Chapter 15: Micturition and catheterisation
Chapter 16: Urine samples
Chapter 17: Defecation and stool specimens

Section 5: Principles of drug administration
Chapter 18: Medication administration: Legal aspects, pharmacology and anaphylaxis
Chapter 19: Oral
Chapter 20: Per vaginum
Chapter 21: Per rectum
Chapter 22: By injection
Chapter 23: Intravenous medications and intravenous therapy
Chapter 24: Blood and iron transfusion
Chapter 25: Inhalation

Section 6: Skills for supporting antenatal wellbeing
Chapter 26: Building a therapeutic relationship
Chapter 27: Abdominal examination during pregnancy
Chapter 28: Interprofessional working to optimise women's antenatal care

Section 7: Skills for preparing women for labour, birth and early parenting
Chapter 29: Facilitating learning in expectant and new parents

PART 2: WORKING WITH THE WOMAN AND BABY DURING LABOUR AND BIRTH

Section 8: Monitoring well-being in early labour
Chapter 30: Principles of intrapartum skills: first-stage issues
Chapter 31: Abdominal examination during labour
Chapter 32: Membrane Sweep
Chapter 33: Fetal Heart Monitoring
Chapter 34: Non-pharmacological pain relief
Chapter 35: Water immersion for labour and birth
Chapter 36: Birth at Home

Section 9: Monitoring well-being in established labour
Chapter 37: Fetal Blood Sampling
Chapter 38: Epidural analgesia

Section 10: Monitoring wellbeing during the expulsive phase
Chapter 39: Intrapartum skills in the second stage
Chapter 40: Care of the perineum before and during birth
Chapter 41: Assisted and operative birth
Chapter 42: Maternal and newborn resuscitation

Section 11: Monitoring wellbeing during and after the third stage
Chapter 43: Principles of intrapartum skills: third stage
Chapter 44: Postpartum haemorrhage
Chapter 45: Examination and repair of the genital tract following birth

PART 3: WORKING WITH THE WOMAN AND BABY AFTER BIRTH

Section 12: Skills for optimising the woman's and baby's physiological wellbeing
Chapter 46: Promoting physiological stability in the mother-baby dyad immediately after normal term birth
Chapter 47: Caring for a woman after a caesarean section
Chapter 48: Caring for the baby's physiological wellbeing after birth

Section 13: Skills for supporting the woman to feed her baby
Chapter 49: Supporting the woman to initiate breastfeeding
Chapter 50: Supporting the woman who chooses to formula feed

PART 4: CARE OF SELF AND OTHERES

Section 14: Skills for working safely
Chapter 51: Self Care
Chapter 52: Manual handling
Chapter 53: Workplace Health and Safety