cover image - Midwifery Preparation for Practice E-Book, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780729597869
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 10-06-2022
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $106.99

Midwifery Preparation for Practice E-Book, 5th Edition

by Sally Pairman, MNZM, D.Mid, MA, BA, RM, RGON., Sally K. Tracy, DMID MA BNURS AdvDipMid RM RGON, Hannah Dahlen, BN, GradCert (Mid-Pharm), MCommN,PhD, RN, RM, FACM and Lesley Dixon, PHD, RM

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cover image - Midwifery Preparation for Practice E-Book, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780729597869
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 10-06-2022
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $106.99
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    • Aligned to local and international midwifery standards for practice and guidelines
    • Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives and the New Zealand College of Midwives
    • Presented in 2 volumes for ease of use
    • Videos to support learning
    • An eBook included in all print purchases

    Additional resources on Evolve:

    • eBook on VitalSource

    Instructor resources:

    • PPT slides
    • Test bank

    Student resources:

    • Videos
    • Answer to review questions
    • Weblinks
    • Image bank
    • New chapters

      • Sustainability and Environmental Health Care
      • Ethical Frameworks for Practice
    • Updated midwifery guidelines and practice examples throughout

  • Book 1:

    SECTION 1: CONTEXT
    1. The Australian and New Zealand context
    2. Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services
    3. Human rights in childbirth
    4. Fear and risk
    5. Sustainability and environmental health care
    6. Midwifery as primary health
    7. Birth place and birth space
    8. Ways of looking at evidence and measurement

    SECTION 2: THE WOMAN
    9. Social and environmental determinants of women's health
    10. Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
    11. Locating Māori as Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the Midwifery Partnership
    12. Options for women around fertility and reproduction

    SECTION 3: THE MIDWIFE
    13. Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
    14. Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
    15. Ethical Frameworks for practice
    16. Supporting midwives, supporting each other

    SECTION 4: PRACTICING PARTNERSHIP
    17. Midwifery partnership
    18. Working in collaboration
    19. Promoting physiological birth

    Book 2:

    SECTION 1: AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE
    20. Overview of reproductive physiology
    21. Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation
    22. Screening and assessment
    23. Working with women in pregnancy
    24. Applied physiology for labour and birth
    25. Supporting women in labour and birth
    26. Working with pain in labour
    27. Using water for labour and birth
    28. Perineal care and repair
    29. Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period
    30. Supporting women becoming mothers
    31. Supporting the newborn
    32. Supporting the breastfeeding mother
    33. Pharmacology and prescribing
    34. Contraception
    35. Women's psycho-social health and wellbeing

    SECTION 2: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
    36. Variations in normal
    37. Challenges in pregnancy
    38. Disturbances in the rhythm of labour
    39. Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth
    40. Life-threatening emergencies
    41. Complications in the post-natal period for the mother
    42. The compromised neonate
    43. Grief and loss during childbearing -- the crying times

  • Sally Pairman, MNZM, D.Mid, MA, BA, RM, RGON., Chief Executive, International Confederation of Midwives, The Hague, The Netherlands, Sally K. Tracy, DMID MA BNURS AdvDipMid RM RGON, Professor of Midwifery Research, Sydney University; Conjoint Professor, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Australia., Hannah Dahlen, BN, GradCert (Mid-Pharm), MCommN,PhD, RN, RM, FACM, Professor of Midwifery and Higher Degree Research Director, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. and Lesley Dixon, PHD, RM, Midwifery Advisor, New Zealand College of Midwives,Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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