Midwifery Skills at a Glance
Samenvatting
Being an effective midwife requires a range of knowledge and skills, all of which are essential to provide competent and safe care to childbearing women and their infants. Midwifery Skills at a Glance offers an invaluable, straightforward guide for students and practitioners offering readable, easily digestible information, supported with illustrations throughout to enhance application to practice.
Clear and concise throughout, Midwifery Skills at a Glance covers a wide range of skills exploring issues such as infection control, personal hygiene care, and safeguarding; assessment, examination and screening skills; how to care for the woman and neonate with complex needs; drug administration and pain relief.
A comprehensive, highly visual guide to the skills essential for safe, effective, and compassionate midwifery practice
Written by experts in their field
Briefly describes each skill and provides clear illustrations making it an ideal companion in clinical practice
Offers instruction on the safe use of a wide range of essential skills required to deliver safe, evidence–based maternity care
Includes service user viewpoints and key points to help consolidate learning and reflect on the experience of receiving care
Written with the student midwife in mind, Midwifery Skills at a Glance is equally invaluable for all others providing care, including Maternity Support Workers, mentors, registered midwives and medical students.
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<p>Foreword xi</p>
<p>Preface xii</p>
<p>The basics of care 1</p>
<p>Infection control</p>
<p>1 Infection prevention and control 2</p>
<p>2 Hand hygiene 4</p>
<p>3 Infectious diseases in pregnancy 6</p>
<p>4 Modes of transmission 8</p>
<p>5 Asepsis and sepsis 10</p>
<p>Health and safety at work</p>
<p>6 Moving and handling 12</p>
<p>7 The control of substances hazardous to health 14</p>
<p>8 Safety in the working environment 16</p>
<p>9 Sharps injuries 18</p>
<p>10 Working safely in the community 20</p>
<p>Personal hygiene care</p>
<p>11 Personal hygiene care for women 22</p>
<p>12 Perineal and vulval hygiene; use of bedpans and commodes 24</p>
<p>13 Pressure area care 26</p>
<p>Quality and patient safety in maternity care</p>
<p>14 Risk management, liability and avoidable harm 28</p>
<p>15 Types of incident, incident reporting, record keeping and duty of candour 30</p>
<p>16 Audit and quality assurance in maternity care 32</p>
<p>Safeguarding</p>
<p>17 Safeguarding vulnerable women 34</p>
<p>18 Safeguarding of children: key issues 36</p>
<p>19 Female genital mutilation 38</p>
<p>Assessment, examination, screening and care of the woman and baby 41</p>
<p>Assessment of the woman</p>
<p>20 Booking : the initial consultation with the midwife 42</p>
<p>21 The antenatal appointment: physical and psychological assessment of the woman in pregnancy 44</p>
<p>22 Abdominal examination in pregnancy 46</p>
<p>23 Physical and emotional assessment after birth 48</p>
<p>Care of the woman in labour</p>
<p>24 Assessing the woman in labour 50</p>
<p>25 Abdominal examination in labour 52</p>
<p>26 Vaginal examinations in labour 54</p>
<p>27 Positions in labour and birth 56</p>
<p>28 Supporting and caring for women in labour 58</p>
<p>29 Supporting and caring for the partner 60</p>
<p>30 Care of the perineum in labour including episiotomy and suturing 62</p>
<p>31 Examination of the placenta and membranes 64</p>
<p>32 Urinary catheterisation 66</p>
<p>The fetus in pregnancy and labour</p>
<p>33 Assessing fetal wellbeing in pregnancy and labour 68</p>
<p>34 Monitoring the fetal heart in pregnancy and labour 70</p>
<p>Assessment and examination of the neonate</p>
<p>35 The Apgar score 72</p>
<p>36 The midwife s examination of the baby at birth including identification of the neonate 74</p>
<p>37 Appearance and characteristics of the well term neonate 76</p>
<p>38 Overall daily assessment of the term neonate including vital signs and bladder and bowel function 78</p>
<p>39 Newborn and infant physical examination 80</p>
<p>40 The term, preterm and growth–restricted baby 82</p>
<p>Caring for the newborn</p>
<p>41 Providing daily hygiene for the neonate including changing a nappy 84</p>
<p>42 Bathing the newborn 86</p>
<p>43 Breastfeeding 88</p>
<p>44 Formula feeding 90</p>
<p>45 Other feeding methods 92</p>
<p>46 Neonatal blood screening ( heel prick ) 94</p>
<p>Blood sampling and cannulation</p>
<p>47 Maternal venepuncture, including glucose tolerance testing 96</p>
<p>48 Cord blood and neonatal capillary blood sampling 98</p>
<p>49 Venous cannulation of the woman 100</p>
<p>Taking and testing other body samples</p>
<p>50 Urinalysis 102</p>
<p>51 Specimen collection stool specimen 104</p>
<p>52 Taking a wound swab 106</p>
<p>53 Use of a vaginal speculum and taking a vaginal swab 108</p>
<p>The woman or neonate with different needs 111</p>
<p>Induction/stimulation of labour</p>
<p>54 Membrane sweep 112</p>
<p>55 Insertion of vaginal prostaglandin E2 114</p>
<p>56 Artificial rupture of membranes 116</p>
<p>Care skills for the woman with complex needs</p>
<p>57 Recognising the deteriorating woman 118</p>
<p>58 CVP, Spo2 and ECGs 120</p>
<p>59 Fluid balance monitoring 122</p>
<p>60 Peak flow measurement in the woman 124</p>
<p>61 MEOWS, AVPU, GCS and SBAR 126</p>
<p>62 Care of the deceased 128</p>
<p>Care skills for the baby with complex needs</p>
<p>63 Recognising deterioration in the neonate 130</p>
<p>64 Neonatal jaundice 132</p>
<p>65 Hypoglycaemia 134</p>
<p>66 Hypothermia 136</p>
<p>Wound care</p>
<p>67 Wound assessment 138</p>
<p>68 Wound dressings and drains 140</p>
<p>69 Wound closures 142</p>
<p>Prevention of venous thromboembolism</p>
<p>70 Assessment of venous thromboembolism risk and prevention of deep vein thrombosis in childbirth 144</p>
<p>71 Application and use of compression stockings 146</p>
<p>Drug administration in midwifery 149</p>
<p>Routes of administration</p>
<p>72 Drug administration, handling and storage 150</p>
<p>73 Administration by injection to the woman 152</p>
<p>74 Intravenous administration of drugs 154</p>
<p>75 Medicine administration by oral, rectal, vaginal, topical and inhalation routes 156</p>
<p>76 Neonatal drug administration 158</p>
<p>77 Immunisation 160</p>
<p>Pain relief</p>
<p>78 Regional analgesia 162</p>
<p>79 Non–pharmacological methods of pain relief 164</p>
<p>80 Transfusion of blood and blood products 166</p>
<p>81 Anti–D: preventing rhesus isoimmunisation 168</p>
<p>Appendices 170</p>
<p>Key references and further reading 172</p>
<p>Glossary 182</p>
<p>Index 184</p>