Midwifery Preparation for Practice E-Book, 5th Edition

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 Maori 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.