Midwifery : preparation for practice /

Midwifery : preparation for practice / [edited by] Sally Pairman, Sally K. Tracy, Hannah G. Dahlen, Lesley Dixon. - 4e [edition] - 2 volumes (xxii, 361, 28 pages; x, 1059, 28 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm

Contextual implications for Midwifery practice -- CONTEXT -- The Australian and New Zealand context -- Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services -- Human rights in childbirth -- Fear and risk -- Midwifery as primary health -- Birth place and birth space -- Ways of looking at evidence and measurement -- THE WOMAN -- Social and environmental determinations of women's health -- Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women -- Midwives and Maori women: advancing our relationships -- Options for women around fertility and reproduction -- THE MIDWIFE -- Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand -- Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand -- Supporting midwives, supporting each other -- Practising partnership -- Midwifery partnership -- Working in collaboration -- Promoting physiological birth. BOOK 1. Section 1: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Section 2: 8. 9. 10. 11. Section 3: 12. 13. 14. Section 4: 15. 16. 17. Midwifery practice -- AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE -- Overview of reproductive physiology -- Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation -- Screening and assessment -- Working with women in pregnancy -- Applied physiology for labour and birth -- Supporting women in labour and birth -- Working with pain in labour -- Using water for labour and birth -- Perineal care and repair -- Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period -- Supporting women becoming mothers -- Supporting the newborn -- Supporting the breastfeeding mother -- Pharmacology and prescribing -- Contraception -- COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE -- Women's psycho-social health and wellbeing -- Variations in normal -- Challenges in pregnancy -- Disturbances in the rhythm of labour -- Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth -- Life-threatening emergencies -- Complications in the post-natal period for the mother -- The compromised neonate -- Grief and loss during childbearing - the crying times. BOOK 2. Section 1: 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. Section 2: 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.

Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) and the New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM), Midwifery: Preparation for Practice has long been upheld as the definitive midwifery text for Australian and New Zealand midwifery students. Now in its 4th edition, the text presents a global model of midwifery best practice that is supported by a range of examples from the Australian, New Zealand and international midwifery contexts.

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


Australia.
New Zealand.

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