Midwifery Essentials: Antenatal

Volume 2
2. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-7020-7098-3
Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 111 mm x 185 mm, Gewicht: 170 g

Reihe: Midwifery Essentials

The second edition of the popular Midwifery Essentials series continues to help readers understand and master a range of core issues safely and with confidence!

Written by leading midwifery academics, each book in the series provides a user-friendly source of information which has been fully updated thruoghout to reflect the latest evidence-base for current practice. Now with an improved design to make learning as easy as possible, each paperback in the series focuses on the importance of communication and comtemporary women-centred care and presents helpful 'scenarios' to encourage debate and reflection.

The Midwifery Essentials series is ideal for all midwives - whether qualified or in training - and is also helpful to nurses and HCAs working in the maternity environment.
- Helpful 'jigsaw' approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. effective communication, team working and health promotion
- Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding current practice
- Chapters designed to be read as a 'standalone' or in succession
- Makes reference to the latest national and international guidelines
- Embraces the principles of ‘Better Births’

Zielgruppe

<p>Midwives - whether qualified or in training </p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baston, Helen

Hall, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Gynäkologie, Geburtshilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Models of antenatal care: the options available
3. The booking history
4. Health in pregnancy
5. Monitoring maternal physical wellbeing
6. Monitoring women’s emotional wellbeing in the antenatal period
7. Blood tests in pregnancy
8. Antenatal screening for fetal abnormality
9. Monitoring fetal wellbeing during routine antenatal care
10. Antenatal care – preparing for the birth

Über Autor(innen)

Hall, Jennifer
EdD RM ADM MSc (Reproduction & Health) PGDip(HE)