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Now with a new design, the ever popular Skills for Midwifery Practice continues to provide the ideal level of instruction and guidance for a wide range of clinical skills, each one of which is presented in a unique, template format to help make learning easy.
Step-by-step guidance is given on a range of topics including abdominal examination, taking of maternal and neonatal vital signs, infection control, mother and baby hygiene, elimination and drug administration. Childbearing and intrapartum skills are also extensively covered as are neonatal assessment and nutrition, principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy, moving and handling, wound management and CPR.
Skills for Midwifery Practice is invaluable to midwives in training, qualified midwives returning to practice, as well as other members of the obstetric healthcare team.
Data sheet
1 Principles of abdominal examination:during pregnancy and labour 1
2 Principles of abdominal examination:during the postnatal period 000
3 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: temperature measurement
4 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: pulse measurement
5 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: blood pressure measurement
6 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: respiration assessment
7 Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: neurological assessment
8 Principles of infection control: standard precautions
9 Principles of infection control: hand hygiene
10 Principles of infection control: principles of asepsis
11 Principles of infection control: obtaining swabs
12 Principles of hygiene needs: for the woman
13 Principles of hygiene needs: for the baby
14 Principles of elimination management:micturition and catheterisation
15 Principles of elimination management:urinalysis
16 Principles of elimination management:defaecation
17 Principles of elimination management:obtaining urinary and stool specimens
18 Principles of drug administration: legal aspects, pharmacokinetics and anaphylaxis
19 Principles of drug administration: oral administration
20 Principles of drug administration: injection technique
21 Principles of drug administration: administration of medicines per vaginam
22 Principles of drug administration: administration of medicines per rectum
23 Principles of drug administration:intravenous drug administration
24 Principles of drug administration: inhalational analgesia: Entonox
25 Principles of drug administration: epidural analgesia
26 Principles of drug administration: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
27 Facilitation of related childbearing skills: optimal fetal positioning
28 Facilitation of related childbearing skills: speculum use
29 Facilitation of related childbearing skills: membrane sweep
30 Principles of intrapartum skills: first stage issues
31 Principles of intrapartum skills: second stage issues
32 Principles of intrapartum skills: third stage issues
33 Principles of intrapartum skills: examination of the placenta
34 Principles of intrapartum skills: perineal repair
35 Principles of intrapartum skills: management of birth at home
36 Principles of intrapartum skills: management of birth in water
37 Assessment of the baby: assessment at birth
38 Assessment of the baby: daily examination
39 Assessment of the baby: capillary sampling
40 Assessment of the baby: developmental dysplasia of the hips
41 Principles of infant nutrition: breastfeeding
42 Principles of infant nutrition: cup feeding
43 Principles of infant nutrition: sterilisation of feeding equipment
44 Principles of infant nutrition: formula feeding
45 Principles of infant nutrition: nasogastric feeding
46 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: maternal venepuncture
47 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: intravenous cannulation
48 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: intravenous infusion
49 Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous infusion: blood transfusion
50 Principles of moving and handling
51 Principles of perioperative skills
52 Principles of wound management: healing and care
53 Principles of restricted mobility management: pressure area care
54 Principles of restricted mobility management: prevention of thromboembolism
55 Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: maternal resuscitation
56 Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: neonatal resuscitation
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