Midwifery : preparation for practice /

Midwifery : preparation for practice / [edited by] Sally Pairman, Sally K. Tracy, Carol Thorogood, Jan Pincombe. - 3e [edition] - 1259 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Midwifery.
Maternity nursing.
Midwifery--Australia
Midwifery--New Zealand
Maternity nursing--Australia
Maternity nursing--New Zealand

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