Midwifery - E-Book: Preparation for Practice

by Sally Pairman MNZM, D.Mid, MA, BA, RM, RGON., Jan Pincombe PhD, MAppSc, PGradDipEd, BA, RM, RN, RIN, FACMI, Carol Thorogood PhD, MPhil, BApp Psych, Dip Education, RN RM, Sally K. Tracy DMID MA BNURS AdvDipMid RM RGON

Overview

Perfect for:

• • Bachelor of Midwifery students
• • Postgraduate Midwifery students
• • Combined Nursing degree students
• • Combined Nursing degree students

Midwifery: Preparation for Practice 3e is the definitive midwifery text for Australian and New Zealand midwifery students.

The third edition continues to reinforce the established principles of midwifery philosophy and practice—that of working in partnership with women and midwifery autonomy in practice and from this perspective, presents the midwife as a primary healthcare practitioner. It carefully examines the very different maternity care systems in Australia and New Zealand, exploring both autonomous and collaborative practice and importantly documents the recent reforms in Australian midwifery practice.

Midwifery: Preparation for Practice 3e places women and their babies safely at the centre of midwifery practice and will guide, inform and inspire midwifery students, recent graduates and experienced midwives alike.

• • Key contributors from Australia and New Zealand
• • Critical Thinking Exercises and Research Activities
• • Midwifery Practice Scenarios
• • Reflective Thinking Exercises and Case Studies
• • Instructor and Student resources on Evolve, including Test Bank questions, answers to Review Questions and PowerPoint presentations.

• • New chapter on Models of Health
• • Increased content on cultural considerations, human rights, sustainability, mental health, obesity in pregnancy, communication in complex situations, intervention, complications in pregnancy and birth and assisted reproduction
• • Midwifery Practice Scenarios throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780729583350
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1390
File size:	16 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Head of School, School of Midwifery and Group Manager Health, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand; Chair of Midwifery Council of New Zealand

Professor of Midwifery, Program Director, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of South Australia, Adelaide

School of Nursing, Midwifery and Postgraduate Medicine; Coordinator Midwifery Studies, Edith Cowan University, Perth

Associate Professor, Midwifery Practice Development, Northern Sydney and Central Coast Area Health Service and University of Technology, Sydney; Conjoint Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Post-doctoral Research Fellow HERON Project, National Perinatal Statistics Unit, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Table of Contents

1. Australian and New Zealand health care and maternity systems
2. The Australian and New Zealand context
3. Models of health
4. Midwifery and maternity in a global context
5. Risk, fear and safety
6. Ways of looking at evidence and measurement
7. The place of birth
8. Challenges to women’s health
9. Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
10. Midwives and Maori women: Advancing our relationships
11. Options for women around fertility and reproduction
12. Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
13. Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
14. Ethical frameworks for practice
15. Sustaining midwifery practice
16. Theoretical frameworks for midwifery practice
17. Working in partnership
18. Working in collaboration
19. Promoting physiological birth
20. The physiology of conception and pregnancy
21. Nutrition and physical activity foundation for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation
22. Screening and assessment
23. Working with women in pregnancy
24. Physiological changes during labour
25. Supporting women in labour and birth
26. Working with pain in labour
27. Using water for labour and birth
28. Perineal care and repair
29. Physiological changes during the postnatal period
30. Supporting women becoming mothers
31. Transitions to motherhood
32. Supporting the newborn infant
33. Supporting the breastfeeding mother
34. Completing the midwife-woman partnership
35. Pharmacology and prescribing
36. Contraception
37. Challenges in pregnancy
38. Disturbances in the rhythm of labour
39. Interventions in pregnancy labour and birth
40. Maternal life-threatening emergencies
41. Complications in the post-natal period for the mother
42. The compromised neonate
43. Grief and loss during childbearing