Skills for Midwifery Practice

Building on the strengths of the first edition, this book offers a comprehensive look at the range of clinical skills needed to be a competent and confident midwife. Underpinned with relevant physiology and evidence, 'Skills for Midwifery Practice Second Edition' offers a step-by-step guide to professionally caring for pregnant women, newly delivered mothers and their babies. This edition offers substantial revisions and brand new material that ensure the information is relevant to current midwifery practice. Written by highly experienced midwives and midwifery educators, the content reflects their wealth of knowledge and practical experience.

• Tells you everything you need to know about:
• Abdominal examination
• Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs
• Infection control
• Hygiene needs
• Elimination management
• Drug administration
• Intrapartum and other related childbearing skills
• Assessment of the baby
• Infant nutrition
• Phlebotomy and intravenous therapy
• Moving and handling
• Perioperative skills
• Wound management
• Restricted mobility management
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Inclusion of the woman's perspective of pregnancy
• New section on CTG
• Additional material on obtaining eye and throat swabs
• New chapter on optimal fetal positioning
• New chapter on Membrane Sweep
• New chapters on management of homebirth and waterbirth
• Additional material on neonatal resuscitation

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Principles of abdominal examination - during pregnancy
Chapter 2 Principles of abdominal examination - during labour
Chapter 3 Principles of abdominal examination - during the postnatal period
Chapter 4 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs - temperature measurement
Chapter 5 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs - pulse measurement
Chapter 6 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs - blood pressure measurement
Chapter 7 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs - respiration assessment
Chapter 8 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs - neurological assessment
Chapter 9 Principles of infection control - standard precautions
Chapter 10 Principles of infection control - hand hygiene
Chapter 11 Principles of infection control - principles of asepsis
Chapter 12 Principles of infection control - obtaining swabs
Chapter 13 Principles of hygiene needs - for the woman
Chapter 14 Principles of hygiene needs - for the baby
Chapter 15 Principles of elimination management - micturition
Chapter 16 Principles of elimination management - catherterisation
Chapter 17 Principles of elimination management - urinanalysis
Chapter 18 Principles of elimination management - defecation
Chapter 19 Principles of elimination management - obtaining urinary and stool specimens
Chapter 20 Principles of drug administration - legal aspects
Chapter 21 Principles of drug administration - pharmacokinetics and anaphylaxis
Chapter 22 Principles of drug administration - oral administration
Chapter 23 Principles of drug administration - injection technique
Chapter 24 Principles of drug administration - administration of medicines per vaginum
Chapter 25 Principles of drug administration - administration of medicines per rectum
Chapter 26 Principles of drug administration - intravenous drug administration
Chapter 27 Principles of drug administration - inhalation analgesia: Entonox
Chapter 28 Principles of drug administration - epidural analgesia
Chapter 29 Principles of drug administration - transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
Chapter 30 Facilitation of related childbearing skills - optimal fetal positioning
Chapter 31 Facilitation of childbearing skills - speculum use
Chapter 32 Facilitation of childbearing skills - membrane sweep
Chapter 33 Principles of intrapartum skills - examination per vaginum
Chapter 34 Principles of intrapartum skills - second stage issues
Chapter 35 Third stage issues
Chapter 36 Principles of intrapartum skills - examination of the placenta
Chapter 37 Principles of intrapartum skills - perineal repair
Chapter 38 Principles of intrapartum skills - management of birth at home
Chapter 39 Principles of intrapartum skills - managing birth in water
Chapter 40 Assessment of the baby - assessment at birth
Chapter 41 Assessment of the baby - daily examination
Chapter 42 Assessment of the baby - capillary sampling
Chapter 43 Assessment of the baby - developmental dysplasia of the hips
Chapter 44 Principles of infant nutrition - breastfeeding
Chapter 45 Principles of infant nutrition - cup feeding
Chapter 46 Principles of infant nutrition - sterilisation of feeding equipment
Chapter 47 Principles of infant nutrition - formula feeding
Chapter 48 Principles of infant nutrition - nasogastric feeding
Chapter 49 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy - maternal venepuncture
Chapter 50 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy - intravenous cannulation
Chapter 51 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy - intravenous infusion
Chapter 52 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy - blood transfusion
Chapter 53 Principles of moving and handling
Chapter 54 Principles of perioperative skills
Chapter 55 Principles of wound management - principles of wound healing
Chapter 56 Principles of wound management - postoperative wound management
Chapter 57 Principles of restricted mobility management - pressure area care
Chapter 58 Principles of restricted mobility management - prevention of thromboembolism
Chapter 59 Principles of cardio pulmonary resuscitation - maternal resuscitation
Chapter 60 Principles of cardio pulmonary resuscitation - neonatal resuscitation
Glossary
Index