Midwifery Essentials: Labour: Volume 3 / Edition 2

by Helen Baston BA(Hons), MMedSci, PhD, PGDipEd, ADM, RN, RM, Jennifer Hall EdD MSc RN RM ADM PGDip(HE) SFHEA FRCM

Overview

New edition of a title in the popular Midwifery Essentials series originally published in conjunction with The Practising Midwife journal. The series covers core topics in midwifery education in an engaging and friendly format using a helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach which encourages readers to explore topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. effective communication, team working and health promotion. Helpful ‘scenarios’ throughout each volume encourage debate and reflection, core elements of midwifery education.

• Fully updated to provide a useful, friendly source of information
• Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care
• Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures
• Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision
• Helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion
• Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures
• Chapters designed to be read as a ‘standalone’ or in succession
• Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication

• Makes reference to the latest national and international guidelines
• Contains new scenarios to reflect recent changes in practice
• Improved layout aids retention and learning
• Fully updated throughout with the latest evidence base for clinical skills and procedures
• Embraces the principles of ‘Better Births’

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780702070990
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	06/19/2017
Series:	Midwifery Essentials , #3
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	4.30(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

EdD RM ADM MSc (Reproduction & Health) PGDip(HE)

Table of Contents

Labour Volume:

1. Introduction

2. Early assessment and admission in labour

3. The first stage of labour

4. Non-pharmalogical methods of coping with labour

5. Using water in labour

6. Pharmalogical methods of pain relief

7. Induced or accelerated labour

8. The second stage of labour

9. The third stage of labour

10. Caesarian birth

11. Perineal repair

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