A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives

Description

A Pocket guide for Student Midwives, 2nd Edition is an accessible, portable text offering student midwives everything they need to grasp the key elements of midwifery language, knowledge and skills.
The new edition of this useful ‘aide memoire’ is structured in two parts. The first includes relevant terms, abbreviations and definitions. The second part is a quick A-Z reference guide to common conditions, procedures, emergency situations, and supporting information enhanced by visual material to aid comprehension of normality and anomalies. The innovative action flow charts enables rapid access to information that logically guides the reader through procedures in potentially life threatening situations, in both home and hospital settings.

A Pocket guide for Student Midwives, 2nd Edition is essential reading for the new non-nurse student midwife, the experienced nurse entering the midwifery profession, and senior student midwives alike.

• A handy portable ‘survival guide’ for student midwives
• Fully updated to include the latest NMC directives, legislation, and policies
• Includes flow charts, illustrations, and activities

Table of Contents

About the authors
Preface
Acknowledgements

Section 1

• The language of midwifery

Section 2

• Quick reference topics
• Abdominal palpation
• Active management of labour
• Administration of drugs
• Admission in labour
• Adoption
• Amniocentesis
• Amniotic Fluid Embolus (AFE)
• Anaemia
• Antenatal screening
• Antepartum haemorrhage
• Arterial blood pressure recording
• Artificial feeds – bottle feeding
• Artificial rupture of membranes (ARM)
• Aseptic technique
• Augmentation/acceleration of labour
• Basic life support (BLS) – adult
• Birth asphyxia
• Bladder care in labour
• Blood glucose monitoring (neonatal)
• Blood pressure measuring
• Bowel care in labour
• Breast expression of milk
• Breastfeeding
• Breastfeeding Initiative (BFI)
• Breech
• Brow presentation
• Caesarean section
• Cardiotocography (CTG)
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Catheterisation
• Cephalo-pelvic disproportion (CPD)
• Changing Childbirth
• Child protection
• The Children Act,
• Cholestasis
• Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)
• CLAPA
• Clasp trial
• Cleft lip and palate
• Clinical governance
• Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE)
• Community Health Councils (CHCs)
• Complementary therapies
• Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)
• Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD)
• Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI)
• Congenital dislocation of hips
• CONI (care of next infant)
• Contraception advice
• Convulsions
• Cord prolapse/presentation
• Cramp
• Crying baby
• Cultural aspects related to childbirth
• Cup feeding
• Cystic fibrosis
• Cystitis
• Deep vein thrombosis
• Delivery technique
• Diabetes mellitus
• Disseminated intravascular coagulation (coagulopathy)
• (DIC)
• Down’s syndrome
• Drug-addicted mother and neonate
• Eclampsia
• Embolism
• Epigastric pain
• Epilepsy
• Epilepsy and pregnancy
• Episiotomy
• Erb’s palsy (paralysis)
• Exchange transfusion
• Face presentation
• Fainting
• Fetal distress
• Fitting
• Forceps delivery
• Frequency of micturition
• Fundal height estimation (antenatal)
• Fundal height estimation (postnatal)
• Haemoglobinopathies
• Haemorrhagic disease (Vitamin-K-deficient bleeding – VKDB)
• Haemorrhoids
• Headaches
• Heartburn
• Heel prick – peripheral blood sampling
• High vaginal swab (HVS)/speculum examination
• History taking
• HOOP (Hands On Or Poised) Study
• Hyperemesis gravidarum
• Hypoglycaemia – neonatal
• Hypothermia – neonatal
• Hypothyroidism
• Identification of newborn at birth
• Incontinence
• Induction of labour – alternative and ‘natural’
• Induction of labour – medical: uncomplicated pregnancy
• Induction of labour – IUD
• Infection – maternal
• Infection – neonatal
• Initial newborn examination
• Insomnia
• Instrumental delivery – Forceps delivery
• Instrumental delivery – Ventouse delivery
• Intrauterine death (IUD)
• Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)
• Intravenous cannulation/infusion (IVI)
• Jaundice
• Jittery (twitching) baby
• Ketonuria
• Local Supervising Authority (LSA)
• MAGPIE trial
• Malpresentation – fetus
• Maternity action
• Maternity benefits
• Maternity services liaison committees
• Meconium liquor
• Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD)
• Mendelson’s syndrome
• Mid-stream specimen urine (MSSU)
• Multiple pregnancy/births
• National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
• Nausea and vomiting
• Neonatal screening
• Neural tube defect (NTD)
• Obesity in pregnancy
• Occipito-posterior (OP) position
• Oligohydramnios
• Ophthalmia neonatorum
• ORACLE trial
• Parent education
• Partogram completion
• Perineal repair
• Perineal/surrounding area trauma
• Phenylketonuria (PKU)
• Phototherapy
• Placental examination
• Polyhydramnios
• Postnatal care/examination – baby
• Postnatal care – mother
• Postnatal depression
• Postnatal exercises
• Post-partum haemorrhage – primary
• Post-partum haemorrhage – secondary
• Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and pre-eclampsia
• Pre-labour or premature rupture of membranes
• (PROM)
• Preterm baby
• Preterm labour
• Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)
• Prolonged labour – first stage
• Prolonged labour – second stage
• Pruritus
• Pudendal nerve block
• Pulse taking
• Relaxation techniques
• Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) (Surfacant deficiency syndrome [SDS])
• Resuscitation of newborn
• Retained placenta
• Retinopathy of the newborn
• Safe Motherhood Initiative
• Sexually transmitted infection (STI)
• Sheehan’s syndrome
• Shoulder dystocia
• Sickle cell disease
• Small-for-gestational-age baby (SGA)
• Smoking and pregnancy
• Stillbirth
• Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS)
• Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs)
• Substance-abusing mother and baby
• Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
• Symphysis pubis pain/sacro-iliac pain
• Talipes equinovarus
• Teenage pregnancy
• Temperature-taking
• Tentorial tear
• Term breech trial
• Thalassaemia
• Thrombosis and Thromboembolism
• Thrombophlebitis
• Transverse/oblique lie
• Twins
• Urinary tract infection – UTI
• Uterine inversion
• Uterine rupture
• Vaginal examination (VE)
• Varicose veins
• Venepuncture
• Ventouse delivery
• Vomiting
• Winterton report (1992)

Figures

• Figure 1 Antepartum haemorrhage
• Figure 2 Apgar score
• Figure 3 Neonatal resuscitation
• Figure 4 Cord prolapse – presentation at home
• Figure 5 Cord prolapse – presentation in hospital
• Figure 6 Management of third stage of labour – physiological and active
• Figure 7 Management of third stage of labour – alternative active management
• Figure 8 Persistent occipito-posterior position – landmarks on vaginal examination
• Figure 9 Persistent occipito-posterior position – delivery of the occiput
• Figure 10 Persistent occipito-posterior position – delivery of the chin
• Figure 11 Face presentation – landmarks on vaginal examination
• Figure 12 Face presentation – delivery of the chin
• Figure 13 Face presentation – delivery of the occiput
• Figure 14 Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
• Figure 15 Eclampsia
• Figure 16 Haemoglobin composition
• Figure 17 Normal adult haemoglobin HbA
• Figure 18 Normal adult haemoglobin HbA2
• Figure 19 Normal fetal haemoglobin
• Figure 20 Abnormal haemoglobin – sickle cell trait
• Figure 21 Abnormal haemoglobin – sickle cell disease
• Figure 22 Abnormal haemoglobin – alpha thalassaemia minor or trait
• Figure 23 Abnormal haemoglobin – alpha thalassaemia major
• Figure 24 Abnormal haemoglobin – beta thalassaemia minor
• Figure 25 Abnormal haemoglobin – beta thalassaemia major
• Figure 26 Foot with sites for heel prick
• Figure 27 Genetic inheritance, e.g. PKU
• Figure 28 Normal placenta at term –maternal surface
• Figure 29 Normal placenta at term – fetal surface
• Figure 30 Normal placenta – lateral view showing two membranes
• Figure 31 Abnormal insertion of the cord: Battledore insertion
• Figure 32 Abnormal insertion of the cord: velamentous insertion
• Figure 33 Abnormal placenta – bipartite placenta
• Figure 34 Abnormal placenta – succenturiate lobe
• Figure 35 Abnormal placenta – circumvallate placenta
• Figure 36 Lateral view of circumvallate placenta showing the amnion and the double fold of the chorion
• Figure 37 Post-partum haemorrhage – primary
• Figure 38 Post-partum haemorrhage – secondary
• Figure 39 Retained placenta – at home
• Figure 40 Retained placenta – in hospital
• Figure 41 Shoulder dystocia
• Figure 42 Uterine inversion
• Figure 43 Uterine rupture
• Figure 44 Stations of the head in the pelvis

References

Author Information

Stella McKay-Moffat is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Women’s Health, Edge Hill University, UK.
Pam Lee is Associate Lecturer in Midwifery and Women’s Health, Edge Hill University, UK.