The Student′s Guide to Becoming a Midwife 2e
Samenvatting
The Student s Guide to Becoming a Midwife is essential reading for all student midwives.
Now updated to include the latest 2012 NMC Midwifery Rules and Standards and a brand new chapter on the midwife and public health, this comprehensive resource provides a wide range of need–to–know information for student midwives, including:
Effective communication and documentation
Confidentiality
Interdisciplinary working
The fundamentals of antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care
Assessment and examination of the new–born baby
Medicines
Public health
Clinical decision–making
Evidence–based practice
With case studies, words of wisdom from current midwives and a range of activities and self–test questions throughout making it easy to learn and understand key concepts The Student s Guide to Becoming a Midwife is the ideal companion for students throughout their course.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Preface to the Second Edition vii</p>
<p>Acknowledgements ix</p>
<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>1 Effective Communication 8</p>
<p>2 Effective Documentation 26</p>
<p>3 Confidentiality 41</p>
<p>4 The Aims of Antenatal Care 57</p>
<p>5 Programmes of Care During Childbirth 72</p>
<p>6 Interprofessional Working: Seamless Working within Maternity Care 88</p>
<p>7 Intrapartum Care 102</p>
<p>8 Effective Emergency Care 131</p>
<p>9 Initial Assessment and Examination of the Newborn Baby 156</p>
<p>10 Effective Postnatal Care 172</p>
<p>11 Medication and the Midwife 198</p>
<p>12 The Midwife and Public Health 214</p>
<p>13 Regulating the Midwifery Profession 230</p>
<p>14 The Impact of Cultural Issues on the Practice of Midwifery 249</p>
<p>15 Legislation and the Midwife 261</p>
<p>16 Decision Making 277</p>
<p>17 Health, Safety and Environmental Issues 293</p>
<p>18 Evidence–Based Practice 312</p>
<p>19 Statutory Supervision of Midwives 329</p>
<p>20 Clinical Governance: A Framework for Improving Quality in Maternity Care 345</p>
<p>Answers to Quiz Questions 365</p>
<p>Glossary 374</p>
<p>Index 381</p>