Description

• • Designed to enable midwifery practitioners to provide safe and competent care, which is tailored to the patient’s individual needs
  • Extensively illustrated to assist visual learning with additional ‘pull out’ textboxes to highlight key information
  • Streamlined chapters with similar themes and approach help consolidate learning
  • Reflects all modern midwifery curricula by presenting a strong emphasis on evidenced-based practice and the use of technology
  • Over 500 on-line multiple-choice questions to enable readers to test their knowledge
  • Offers a full image bank of downloadable illustrations to assist with personal projects and/or further learning

• • References, Further Reading and Useful Websites promote further learning

• Glossary of Terms and Acronyms provide simple definitions of more complex terminologies

• Full colour illustrations now used throughout the book, in response to student feedback
• Contains many new chapters, some of which are authored by members of the multi-professional team
• Up-to-date guidance on professional regulation, midwifery supervision, legal and ethical issues, risk management and clinical governance
• Recognition that midwives increasingly care for women with complex health needs, in a multicultural society
• Examination of the dilemmas involved in caring for women with a raised body mass index
• Chapter on optimising care of the perineum for women with perineal trauma, including those who have experienced female genital mutilation
• Guidance to support the trend for midwives to undertake the neonatal physical examination of the healthy term infant
• Additional coverage of basic neonatal resuscitation