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Midwifery Essentials
- 3rd Edition - June 24, 2021
- Authors: Joanne Gray, Rachel Smith
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 4 0 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 9 4 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 9 4 7 - 5
Midwifery Essentials provides quick access to facts, formulas and checklists and highlights strategies that midwives can employ to support women throughout the pregnancy, labour an… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMidwifery Essentials provides quick access to facts, formulas and checklists and highlights strategies that midwives can employ to support women throughout the pregnancy, labour and postnatal periods. Underpinned with the most recent evidence-based practice and research, the resource includes common tests and screening, resuscitation and life support guidelines, ISOBAR hand over checklist, common abbreviations and terms, drug calculations, and documentation guidelines.
Now in its third edition, the text has been fully updated to ensure currency in midwifery practice guidelines, standards, policies, statistics and references.
- Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives
- Handy pocket-sized, spiral bound
- Waterproof, write on /wipe off pages with plenty of space to personalise notes
- An eBook included in all print purchases
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- How to use
- Copyright
- Note from the authors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Introduction
- General principles
- Antenatal period
- Schedule of antenatal visits
- Routine antenatal screening
- Routine antenatal visit checklist
- Calculating expected date of birth (EDB)
- Routine blood tests in pregnancy
- Other screening tests in pregnancy
- Vital sign measurement—maternal
- Korotkoff's sounds
- Hypertension in pregnancy
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Universal screening for gestational diabetes
- Abdominal palpation
- Body mass index (BMI)
- Fetal growth patterns
- Consultation and referral
- During labour and birth
- Labour and birth definitions
- Mechanism of labour and birth (occipitoanterior position)
- Promoting normal birth
- Vaginal examinations
- The cervix in labour
- Bishop's score
- Intermittent fetal heart rate auscultation
- Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM)—definitions
- Electronic fetal monitoring classification of features—intrapartum classification of CTG features
- Fetal scalp blood sampling (FBS)
- Shoulder dystocia
- Management of the third stage
- Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH)
- Preoperative checklist
- Postoperative checklist
- Postnatal period
- Postnatal assessment checklist
- Recognising and responding to sepsis
- Contraception in postpartum women
- Supporting breastfeeding
- Newborn baby
- Immediate care of the newborn
- Apgar score
- Newborn screening test
- Principles of newborn assessment
- General information
- Basic life support
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Common abbreviations in medication administration
- Metric system
- 24-hour time
- Drug calculations
- Safe administration of medications
- Common abbreviations in midwifery practice
- Standard precautions
- Documentation guidelines
- Professional communication tool—ISOBAR
- Handover checklist
- Phone consultation checklist
- References
- No. of pages: 124
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: June 24, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780729544009
- eBook ISBN: 9780729589468
- eBook ISBN: 9780729589475
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Joanne Gray
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Midwifery, Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaRS
Rachel Smith
Affiliations and expertise
Midwifery Education Consultant, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, Burnet Institute, Victoria, Australia
Adjunct Fellow, Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia