Midwifery. Preparation for Practice

Description

Midwifery: Preparation for Practice is both highly respected and upheld as the definitive midwifery text for the Australian and New Zealand market. Written and edited by a selection of internationally recognised leaders in the midwifery, this book shares the wealth of knowledge and expertise in midwifery practice, education, research and regulation.

This text aims to develop and support competent, confident midwives by providing up-to-date evidence and practice based resources for students and midwives who work in partnership with women in woman-centred models of midwifery care.

New to this edition

• New chapter on Models of Health
• Increased content on cultural considerations, human rights, sustainability, mental health, obesity in pregnancy, communication in complex situations, intervention, complications in pregnancy and birth and assisted reproduction
• Midwifery Practice Scenarios throughout.

Table of contents

Australian and New Zealand health care and maternity systems
The Australian and New Zealand context
Models of health
Midwifery and maternity in a global context
Risk, fear and safety
Ways of looking at evidence and measurement
The place of birth
Challenges to women’s health
Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
Midwives and Maori women: Advancing our relationships
Options for women around fertility and reproduction
Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
Ethical frameworks for practice
Sustaining midwifery practice
Theoretical frameworks for midwifery practice
Working in partnership
Working in collaboration
Promoting physiological birth
The physiology of conception and pregnancy
Nutrition and physical activity foundation for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation
Screening and assessment
Working with women in pregnancy
Physiological changes during labour
Supporting women in labour and birth
Working with pain in labour
Using water for labour and birth
Perineal care and repair
Physiological changes during the postnatal period
Supporting women becoming mothers
Transitions to motherhood
Supporting the newborn infant
Supporting the breastfeeding mother
Completing the midwife-woman partnership
Pharmacology and prescribing
Contraception
Challenges in pregnancy
Disturbances in the rhythm of labour
Interventions in pregnancy labour and birth
Maternal life-threatening emergencies
Complications in the post-natal period for the mother
The compromised neonate
Grief and loss during childbearing