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Mosby's Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring

  • 8th Edition
  • March 15, 2016
  • Lisa A. Miller + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 1 4 0 1 - 2
Authored by a nurse-midwife, a perinatologist, and a nurse, Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 8th Edition is an evidence-based resource on fetal heart rate monitoring for all clinicians — whether you are a nurse, a physician or a midwife, a student or an instructor, this guide has information crucial to your practice. Designed specifically for the clinical environment, it provides a single source for interpretation and management of electronic fetal monitoring – in labor and delivery, the intensive care unit, inpatient antepartum units, or the obstetric or midwifery office

Skills for Midwifery Practice

  • 4th Edition
  • January 11, 2016
  • Ruth Bowen + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 6 5 0 7 - 1
Now with a new design, the ever popular Skills for Midwifery Practice continues to provide the ideal level of instruction and guidance for a wide range of clinical skills, each one of which is presented in a unique, template format to help make learning easy. Step-by-step guidance is given on a range of topics including abdominal examination, taking of maternal and neonatal vital signs, infection control, mother and baby hygiene, elimination and drug administration. Childbearing and intrapartum skills are also extensively covered as are neonatal assessment and nutrition, principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy, moving and handling, wound management and CPR. Skills for Midwifery Practice is invaluable to midwives in training, qualified midwives returning to practice, as well as other members of the obstetric healthcare team.

Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing

  • 5th Edition
  • May 12, 2015
  • AWHONN
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 2 8 7 6 4 - 7
AWHONN’s Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 5th Edition provides the most up-to-date, accurate information available on today’s maternal-newborn nursing practice. Its concise outline format covers concepts of reproduction, fetal development, normal pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum periods, the normal newborn, complications in the mother and newborn, and ethical issues. With a fresh focus on patient safety and revised case studies, this clinical guide and certification prep tool features AWHONN-endorsed content for the practice of maternal-newborn nursing.

Myles Textbook for Midwives

  • 16th Edition
  • September 5, 2014
  • Jayne E. Marshall + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 5 7 4 5 - 8
The sixteenth edition of this seminal textbook, Myles Textbook for Midwives, has been extensively revised and restructured to ensure that it reflects current midwifery practice, with an increased focus on topics that are fundamental to midwifery practice today. The book comes with Elsevier EVOLVE ancillaries – an online learning package which consists of 500 self-assessment questions and answers and a fully downloadable image bank.

Public Health Mini-Guides: Alcohol Misuse

  • 1st Edition
  • June 14, 2014
  • Ken Barrie + 1 more
  • Angela Scriven
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 4 7 2 3 - 7
Public Health Mini-Guides: Alcohol Misuse provides up-to-date, evidence-based information in a convenient pocket-sized format. Alcohol Misuse is a major public health concern in the UK, and its impact is significant on a global scale. This Mini-Guide presents resources, research and examples relating to this challenge, exploring the causes of alcohol misuse along with the approaches to reduce alcohol problems at both individual and population levels.

Maternity Nursing - Revised Reprint

  • 8th Edition
  • November 29, 2013
  • Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk + 2 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 2 9 3 6 9 - 3
Designed to meet the needs of today’s students, Lowdermilk’s Maternity Nursing, 8th Edition — Revised Reprint addresses the fundamentals of maternity nursing with a concise, focused presentation of the care of women during the childbearing years. Integrating considerations for family, culture, and health promotion into the continuum of care, it also addresses community-based care to emphasize that nursing care takes place in many settings. Maternity Nursing focuses on childbearing issues and concerns, including care of the newborn, as well as wellness promotion and management of common women’s health problems.

Fisioterapia en obstetricia y uroginecología

  • 2nd Edition
  • February 7, 2013
  • Carolina Walker Chao
  • Spanish
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 8 4 - 4 5 8 - 2 3 7 8 - 1
La 2.ª edición del libro Fisioterapia en obstetricia y uroginecología se adapta por completo a las nuevas exigencias que presentan los nuevos planes de estudio de fisioterapia, convirtiéndose así en una obra de gran utilidad para cubrir los contenidos de la asignatura de Fisioterapia obstétrica. En esta nueva edición se actualizan todos los capítulos, modificando incluso, de manera significativa, algunos de ellos, con el objetivo de adaptar el contenido a las últimas evidencias científicas publicadas sobre esta materia. El procedimiento que han seguido los autores para la actualizacion de los capítulos se fundamenta en la incorporación de nuevos enfoques de tratamiento basados en ejercicios prácticos. La obra guarda un perfecto equilibrio entre la parte práctica y la teórica, y para lograr este objetivo se incluye un número significativo de propuestas de ejercicios. También se incluye el siguiente material complementario en línea en www.studentconsult.es: Preguntas de autoevaluación, casos prácticos basados en situaciones  reales, galería de imágenes en color y vídeos con ejercicios prácticos. Aunque la obra está dirigida a fisioterapeutas, tanto profesionales como estudiantes, presenta un gran interés para otros profesionales de la salud, tales como matronas, ginecólogos y urólogos.  

The Midwife's Pocket Formulary

  • 3rd Edition
  • February 5, 2013
  • Liz Davey + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 4 6 9 0 - 2
In current midwifey practice, one of the competencies covered by midwives is medicines management. Midwives and students are required to have an understanding of the range of medicines used within their sphere of practice.The Midwife’s Pocket Formulary provides both practising midwives and students with key information on the administration and management of medications in midwifery practice.

Myles Midwifery Anatomy & Physiology Workbook

  • 1st Edition
  • September 24, 2012
  • Jean Rankin
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 6 1 2 3 - 3
Fully updated in response to student feedback, Myles Midwifery Anatomy and Physiology Workbook 2e presents a variety of activities ranging from colouring and labelling exercises and ‘match and connect’ to ‘true false’ and ‘identify the correct response’. Designed for all students of midwifery, Myles Midwifery Anatomy and Physiology Workbook will be perfect for preregistration readers and anyone on ‘return to practice’ programs.

Survival Guide to Midwifery

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 15, 2012
  • Diane M. Fraser + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 4 7 0 6 - 0
Perfect for practice placement, this handy Survival Guide gives you the clinical information you need at your fingertips.

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