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Antenatal - Midwifery Essentials Vol 2

Author: Helen Baston, Jennifer Hall

Item Code: MI3579

Category: Midwifery



$23.95

This second guide in the Midwifery Essentials Series covers midwifery care for women in the antenatal period, considering:

  • models of antenatal care
  • booking history
  • health in pregnancy
  • monitoring maternal physical and emotional wellbeing
  • blood tests in pregnancy
  • antenatal screening for fetal abnormality
  • monitoring fetal wellbeing during antenatal care, and
  • preparing for the birth.

This new series of four Midwifery Essentials’ guides (Basics, Antenatal, Labour, Postnatal) provides students with the essential information needed for best practice at all stages of pregnancy and birth. The series is based on the popular Midwifery Basics’ articles in The Practising Midwife and written by senior midwifery lecturers from the University of West England and the University of York. The guides are user-friendly and include activities, scenarios, diagrams, further resources, and information tables eg basic procedures and drug schedules.

The guides use a ‘jigsaw’ model of effective midwifery care, and use this as a framework to consider scenarios and guidelines for practice. The dimensions of this ‘jigsaw model’ are:

  • woman-centred
  • best evidence
  • professional and legal responsibilities
  • team working
  • effective communication
  • clinical dexterity
  • models of care
  • safe environment and health promotion.

England 2009

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