Antenatal Midwifery Skills

Survival Guide
2. New Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-38883-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 76 Seiten, Format (B × H): 80 mm x 120 mm

Reihe: Nursing and Health Survival Guides

This pocket-sized book, presented in an easy to follow format, is designed as tool for students and professionals to carry in any setting, providing a quick reference guide to antenatal care and related anatomy and physiology.

This new edition of Antenatal Midwifery Skills has been updated to reflect the most up to date guidance around the care of childbearing women. The first in a set of three books which together guide readers along each step in the journey from pregnancy to postnatal/neonatal care, Antenatal Midwifery Skills provides all the crucial information relating to the antenatal part of the childbearing process. Students have access to revision of related anatomy and physiology alongside current national guidance. Step by step processes for skills relating to this area can support student learning in the practice setting. Topics include antenatal screening, managing medical conditions such as cholestasis, CTG interpretation, midwives exemptions and much more.

Used as a platform for wider reading, this text is an ideal reference point for any student or professionals involved with the care of childbearing women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport Überlebenstechniken für die Wildnis (Survival)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Hebammen, Geburtshilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ABDOMINAL EXAMINATION.Amniotic fluid index,Inspection,Palpation,Auscultation,Measurement,Expected findings. ANAEMIA. ANATOMY.Fetal circulation,Female external genitalia,Uterus. ANTENATAL APPOINTMENTS. ANTENATAL SCREENING,Blood tests at booking,Follow-up blood tests,Urine,Ultrasound scans,Additional screening,Routine surveillance. BENEFITS. BISHOP’S SCORE FOR INDUCTION OF LABOUR. BLOOD PRESSURE TAKING. BLOOD VALUES. BMI. BOOKING ADVICE. BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE. CALCULATING ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATES. CHOLESTASIS. CTG INTERPRETATION. CUSTOMISED GROWTH CHARTS. DIABETES.Type 1 diabetic women,Gestational diabetic women. DRUG ADMINISTRATION.Drugs and midwives/student midwives,Midwives exemptions and PGDS,Safe administration,Drug abbreviations,Formulas. EMERGENCIES,Adult life support for a pregnant woman,Antepartum haemorrhage,Eclampsia. FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION. FUNCTIONS OF THE PLACENTA. METHODS OF INDUCTION. MINOR DISORDERS. PRE- ECLAMPSIA. RECORD KEEPING. SUBSTANCE MISUSE. SUPPORT GROUPS. USEFUL WEBSITES. VENEPUNCTURE.Procedure for taking blood,Vacutainer blood bottles and tests. VULNERABLE GROUPS OF WOMEN

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Edwards is a Senior Midwifery Lecturer and Programme Director for the Shortened Midwifery programme at the University of Birmingham. Alison has been a nurse and midwife for over 32 years, progressing through a BSc and Masters’ degree during that time. Having taken up teaching for the last 17 years she has developed particular interests in complex midwifery care most especially pre-eclampsia, and mentorship. During 2019/20 she successfully defended her PhD in Midwifery, focusing on vitamin supplementation and pre-eclampsia. Having published numerous articles and developed a number of teaching tools she achieved senior fellowship within teaching. Current projects involve the development of virtual teaching tools including the use of avatars simulating labour scenarios, and escape room technology.