This title is now available under ISBN 9780702052330.
This highly acclaimed step-by-step guide provides the relevant physiology, available evidence and rationale for each clinical skill. In a highly readable format, 'Skills for Midwifery Practice' offers self-assessment and short summaries, as well as detailed instruction on achieving a range of clinical skills.
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 for the woman and baby
- An essential midwifery textbook that covers the fundamental practical tasks required of the student
- Clear layout ensures easy access to information
- Highly illustrated to aid understanding
- Designed to improve competency when delivering basic skills
- Expanded chapter on the skills used during the first stage of labour
- Application of national guideline for the management of care
- Postnatal examination
- Discussion of the use of infrared touch/non-touch thermometry techniques
- Specific information on locating pulse sites
- More on SATS monitoring
- Increased information on the skills for the second stage of labour, infant feeding and daily examination of the baby
- Greater reference to infection control protocols and the reduction of hospital-acquired infections.
1 Principles of abdominal examination:during pregnancy and labour 1
2 Principles of abdominal examination:during the postnatal period 000
3 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: temperature measurement
4 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: pulse measurement
5 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: blood pressure measurement
6 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: respiration assessment
7 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: neurological assessment
8 Principles of infection control: standard precautions
9 Principles of infection control: hand hygiene
10 Principles of infection control: principles of asepsis
11 Principles of infection control: obtaining swabs
12 Principles of hygiene needs: for the woman
13 Principles of hygiene needs: for the baby
14 Principles of elimination management:micturition and catheterisation
15 Principles of elimination management:urinalysis
16 Principles of elimination management:defaecation
17 Principles of elimination management:obtaining urinary and stool specimens
18 Principles of drug administration: legal aspects, pharmacokinetics and anaphylaxis
19 Principles of drug administration: oral administration
20 Principles of drug administration: injection technique
21 Principles of drug administration: administration of medicines per vaginam
22 Principles of drug administration: administration of medicines per rectum
23 Principles of drug administration:intravenous drug administration
24 Principles of drug administration: inhalational analgesia: Entonox
25 Principles of drug administration: epidural analgesia
26 Principles of drug administration: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
27 Facilitation of related childbearing skills: optimal fetal positioning
28 Facilitation of related childbearing skills: speculum use
29 Facilitation of related childbearing skills: membrane sweep
30 Principles of intrapartum skills: first stage issues
31 Principles of intrapartum skills: second stage issues
32 Principles of intrapartum skills: third stage issues
33 Principles of intrapartum skills: examination of the placenta
34 Principles of intrapartum skills: perineal repair
35 Principles of intrapartum skills: management of birth at home
36 Principles of intrapartum skills: management of birth in water
37 Assessment of the baby: assessment at birth
38 Assessment of the baby: daily examination
39 Assessment of the baby: capillary sampling
40 Assessment of the baby: developmental dysplasia of the hips
41 Principles of infant nutrition: breastfeeding
42 Principles of infant nutrition: cup feeding
43 Principles of infant nutrition: sterilisation of feeding equipment
44 Principles of infant nutrition: formula feeding
45 Principles of infant nutrition: nasogastric feeding
46 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: maternal venepuncture
47 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: intravenous cannulation
48 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: intravenous infusion
49 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous infusion: blood transfusion
50 Principles of moving and handling
51 Principles of perioperative skills
52 Principles of wound management: healing and care
53 Principles of restricted mobility management: pressure area care
54 Principles of restricted mobility management: prevention of thromboembolism
55 Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: maternal resuscitation
56 Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: neonatal resuscitation
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