Skills for Midwifery Practice Australian & New Zealand edition - E-Book, 2nd Edition
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This text provides clear, easy-to-read guidance on more than 110 skills for midwifery students and midwives seeking to update their practice.
Underpinned with the most recent evidence-based practice and research, the second edition walks the reader through general and basic skills in a sequential and logical manner, following a woman’s journey through pregnancy, labour and birth, and postnatal care.
With a focus on the performance of midwifery skills rather than on the theory of midwifery practice, Skills for Midwifery Practice Australia and New Zealand 2nd edition is an indispensable text to which students will return to again and again.
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- Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives
- Step-by-step instructions for each skill
- Images and diagrams to aid understanding
- A woman-centred approach and cultural considerations throughout
- Models of midwifery care (Continuity of Care and Lead Maternity Carer’s Model)
- Australian/NZ specific guidelines, policies, statistics, terminology and medication administration guidelines
- An eBook included in all print purchases
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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