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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Skills for Midwifery Practice Australia and New Zealand Edition - E-Book VBK
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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
Section 2: Vital signs
Section 3: Screening and Testing
Section 4: Principles of elimination management
Section 5: Principles of drug administration
Section 6: Skills for supporting antenatal wellbeing
Section 7: Skills for preparing women for labour, birth and early parenting
PART 2: WORKING WITH THE WOMAN AND BABY DURING LABOUR AND BIRTH
Section 8: Monitoring well-being in early labour
Section 9: Monitoring well-being in established labour
Section 10: Monitoring wellbeing during the expulsive phase
Section 11: Monitoring wellbeing during and after the third stage
PART 3: WORKING WITH THE WOMAN AND BABY AFTER BIRTH
Section 12: Skills for optimising the woman's and baby's physiological wellbeing
Section 13: Skills for supporting the woman to feed her baby
PART 4: CARE OF SELF AND OTHERES
Section 14: Skills for working safely -
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