Midwifery
Preparation for Practice: 2 book set
- 4th Edition - November 28, 2018
- Editors: Sally Pairman, Sally K. Tracy, Hannah Dahlen, Lesley Dixon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 4 2 6 7 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 6 5 0 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 9 5 - 8 6 5 1 - 1
Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) and the New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM), Midwifery: Preparation for Practice has long been upheld as the definitiv… Read more
Purchase options
Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) and the New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM), Midwifery: Preparation for Practice has long been upheld as the definitive midwifery text for Australian and New Zealand midwifery students. Now in its 4th edition, the text presents a global model of midwifery best practice that is supported by a range of examples from the Australian, New Zealand and international midwifery contexts.
Visit evolve.elsevier.com for your additional resources
eBook on VitalSource
Student and Instructor resources:
BOOK 1
SECTION 1: CONTEXT
Chapter 1: The Australian and New Zealand context
Chapter 2: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services
Chapter 3: Human rights in childbirth
Chapter 4: Fear and risk
Chapter 5: Midwifery as primary health
Chapter 6: Birth place and birth space
Chapter 7: Ways of looking at evidence and measurement
SECTION 2: THE WOMAN
Chapter 8: Social and environmental determinations of women’s health
Chapter 9: Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
Chapter 10: Midwives and Maori women: advancing our relationships
Chapter 11: Options for women around fertility and reproduction
SECTION 3: THE MIDWIFE
Chapter 12: Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 13: Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 14: Supporting midwives, supporting each other
Chapter 15: Midwifery partnership
Chapter 16: Working in collaboration
Chapter 17: Promoting physiological birth
BOOK 2
SECTION 1: AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE
Chapter 18: Overview of reproductive physiology
Chapter 19: Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation
Chapter 20: Screening and assessment
Chapter 21: Working with women in pregnancy
Chapter 22: Applied physiology for labour and birth
Chapter 23: Supporting women in labour and birth
Chapter 24: Working with pain in labour
Chapter 25: Using water for labour and birth
Chapter 26: Perineal care and repair
Chapter 27: Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period
Chapter 28: Supporting women becoming mothers
Chapter 29: Supporting the newborn
Chapter 30: Supporting the breastfeeding mother
Chapter 31: Pharmacology and prescribing
Chapter 32: Contraception
SECTION 2: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
Chapter 33: Women’s psycho-social health and wellbeing
Chapter 34: Variations in normal
Chapter 35: Challenges in pregnancy
Chapter 36: Disturbances in the rhythm of labour
Chapter 37: Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth
Chapter 38: Life-threatening emergencies
Chapter 39: Complications in the post-natal period for the mother
Chapter 40: The compromised neonate
Chapter 41: Grief and loss during childbearing – the crying times
- Edition: 4
- Published: November 28, 2018
- Language: English
SP
Sally Pairman
Affiliations and expertise
Chief Executive, International Confederation of Midwives, The Hague, The NetherlandsST
Sally K. Tracy
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Midwifery Research, Sydney University; Conjoint Professor, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Australia.HD
Hannah Dahlen
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Midwifery and Higher Degree Research Director, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.LD
Lesley Dixon
Affiliations and expertise
Midwifery Advisor, New Zealand College of Midwives,Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand.