Reflects the underlying philosophy of love, caring, and support for the childbearing woman, the child, and the families of these individuals. Recognizing that the responsibility of caring for the pregnant woman and ill child increasingly falls on the family, this book stresses teaching the patient, family, and child with an emphasis on prevention.

Helps nurses understand wellness and illness as family-centered events. This title shows maternal-newborn and child health care not as two separate disciplines but as a continuum of knowledge. It presents the content of the two disciplines comprehensively with a holistic approach.

Covering the basic skills needed for midwifery practice, this is a useful textbook for students that aims to ensure competency and understanding of these fundamental tasks.

Part of the Midwifery Essentials series, this title offers a look at the provision of safe and effective antenatal care, exploring the role of the midwife in the context of professional and national guidance. It prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred maternity care.

A dictionary that is suitable for student midwives.

Provides a review of anatomy and physiology applicable to midwifery, utilizing case studies for reflection. This book is useful for the students of midwifery.

Suitable for practice placements, this book gives you the clinical information you need.

Explores contemporary postnatal care for women and their families, exploring the role of the midwife as a member of the multi-professional team. This book prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred postnatal care for mothers and their babies.

Part of the Midwifery Essentials series, this book describes the provision of safe and effective care during labour and birth. It prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred intrapartum care.

Including relevant medical and nursing terminology to provide a comprehensive resource for direct entry midwifery students, this book includes evidence-based information ans is llustrated throughout. Useful appendices provide quick-reference material.

Midwives have an increasingly important role in the management of drugs during pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period. This book should meet the needs of busy midwives by providing a review of the principles of pharmacology and the drugs prescribed in normal and abnormal pregnancy.

Part of the Midwifery Essentials series, this title helps the reader to understand and master a range of clinical skills safely. It introduces and explains the jigsaw model of midwifery care, providing a framework to explore the application of the various clinical skills.

Provides midwives with everything they need for successful practice. This work contains practical guidance on various aspects of the midwife's role. A useful guide enabling midwives to deliver safe and effective care, this handbook is written by practising midwives.

Offers information you need to know to perform competent and safe maternal and neonatal nursing care. This title covers fundamentals, such as fetal development, legal issues, and ethical issues; family planning, including advantages and disadvantages to contraception methods; infertility; perinatal periods, from conception to labor; and, more.

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The latest volume in this series revisits topics particularly pertinent to the postnatal period. It is written in the context of developments in the organization of midwifery care, the emphasis on woman-centred care and empowerment, and the reclaiming by midwives of the normal birth and puerperium.

This second Core Topics volume specially refers to labour and delivery. The latest findings and the implications for modern midwifery are considered, along with earlier work. The relationship between critically renewed research studies and good practice remains.

Part of the Midwifery Practice series, this volume deals with a set of issues, this time drawn from all three stages of care during pregnancy. It fills the vacuum between research and practice, with guidelines for sound practice, based on the research presented in the book.

It is vital for midwifery practice to be based on up-to-date research, which is necessarily changing and dynamic. This work, a sub-series of the Midwifery Practice Series looks at current research findings and discusses the implications for midwifery following the Changing Childbirth report.