Skills for midwifery practice / Ruth Johnson (now Bowen), Wendy Taylor, Sally de-Vitry Smith, Sara Bayes.
"The first edition of Skills for Midwifery Practice Australia and New Zealand edition builds on the success of the highly regarded Skills for Midwifery Practice by Ruth Johnson and Wendy Taylor, now in its fourth edition. Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives, this text provides instr...
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Chatswood, NSW :
Elsevier Australia,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Australia and New Zealand edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. General skills :
- Section 1. Principles of infection control :
- 1. Standard Precautions and hand hygiene
- 2. Asepsis
- 3. Principles of hygiene needs
- Section 2. Vital signs :
- 4. Temperature
- 5. Pulse
- 5. Respiration
- 7. Blood pressure
- 8. Neurological assessment
- Section 3. Screening and Testing :
- 9. Screening tests
- 10. Venepuncture
- 11. Cannulation
- 12. Obtaining Swabs
- 13. Use of Speculum
- 14. Capillary sampling
- Section 4. Principles of elimination management :
- 15. Micturition and catherisations
- 16. Urine samples
- 17. Defaecation and stool specimens
- Section 5. Principles of drug administration :
- 18. Medication administration: Legal aspects, pharmacology and anaphylaxis
- 19. Oral
- 20. Per vaginum
- 21. Per rectum
- 22. By infection
- 23. Intravenous medications and intravenous therapy
- 24. Blood and iron transfusion
- 25. Inhalation
- Section 6. Skills for supporting antenatal wellbeing :
- 26. Building a therapeutic relationship
- 27. Abdominal examination during pregnancy
- 28. Interprofessional working to optimise women's antenatal care
- Section 7. Skills for preparing women for labour, birth and early parenting :
- 29. Facilitating learning through the childbearing episode
- Part 2. Working with the woman and baby during labour and birth :
- Section 1. Monitoring well-being in early labour :
- 30. Principles of intrapartum skills: first-stage issues
- 31. Abdominal Examination During Labour
- 32. Membrane Sweep
- 33. Fetal Heart Monitoring
- 34. Non-pharmacological pain relief
- 35. Management of labour and birth in water
- 36. Birth at Home
- Section 2. Monitoring well-being in established labour :
- 37. Amniotomy, Fetal Scalp Electrode, Fetal Blood Sampling
- 38. Pain Relief - inhalational and regional analgesia: Entonox and Epidural
- Section 3. Monitoring wellbeing during the expulsive phase :
- 39. Intrapartum skills in the second stage
- 40. Management of the perineum
- 41. Assisted and operative birth
- 42. Maternal and infant resuscitation
- Section 4. Monitoring wellbeing during and after the third stage :
- 43. Principles of intrapartum skills: third stage
- 44. Management of the third stage blood loss (Management of PPH)
- 45. Examination of the genital tract following delivery
- Part 3. Working with the woman and baby after birth :
- Section 1. Skills for optimising the woman's and baby's physiological wellbeing :
- 46. Promoting physiological stability in the mother-baby dyad in the first
- 24. hours after birth
- 48. Caring for the baby's physiological wellbeing after birth
- Section 2. Skills for supporting the woman to feed her baby :
- 49. Supporting the woman to initiate breastfeeding
- 50. Supporting the woman who chooses to formula feed
- Part 4. Care of self and others :
- Section 1. Skills of working safely
- 51. Self care
- 52. Manual handling
- 53. Workplace health and safety.