Skills for Midwifery Practice

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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