A guide to continuing professional development needs and meeting the Post-Registration Education and Practice (PREP) requirements. It ensures that the health and wellbeing of the mother, baby and family remain at the forefront of care.

Covers maternity nursing and pediatric nursing. This book includes illustrations, photos, boxes, and tables that clarify key content and help you quickly find essential information.

Suitable for midwives, this title provides guidelines, protocols and research evidence, and illustrations. It includes a chapter on emotion work and focuses on normality, whilst equipping midwives to recognise and respond to complexity in childbearing and parenthood.

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 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.

Provides the information you need to provide competent nursing care to women and newborns. This work emphasizes on the importance of understanding family, culture, client teaching, communication, and clinical decision making.

Designed to accompany Murray's Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women's Health Nursing, 5th Edition , this workbook assists students in understanding and applying material from each chapter in the text.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This fifth volume in the series introduces new topics of midwifery practice and revisits some topics already discussed in previous volumes. The chapter structure remains the same and a range of research themes are presented across the three stages of midwifery practice.

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.

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.