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Midwifery: Preparation for Practice is both highly respected and upheld as the definitive midwifery text for the Australian and New Zealand market. Written and edited by a selection of internationally recognised leaders in the midwifery, this book shares the wealth of knowledge and expertise in midwifery practice, education, research and regulation.
This text aims to develop and support competent, confident midwives by providing up-to-date evidence and practice based resources for students and midwives who work in partnership with women in woman-centred models of midwifery care.
Key Features
• Key contributors from Australia and New Zealand
• Critical Thinking Exercises and Research Activities
• Midwifery Practice Scenarios
• Reflective Thinking Exercises and Case Studies
• Instructor and Student resources on Evolve, including Test Bank questions, answers to Review Questions and PowerPoint presentations.
New Features
- • New chapter on Models of Health
- • Increased content on cultural considerations, human rights, sustainability, mental health, obesity in pregnancy, communication in complex situations, intervention, complications in pregnancy and birth and assisted reproduction
- • Midwifery Practice Scenarios throughout.
- Australian and New Zealand health care and maternity systems
- The Australian and New Zealand context
- Models of health
- Midwifery and maternity in a global context
- Risk, fear and safety
- Ways of looking at evidence and measurement
- The place of birth
- Challenges to women’s health
- Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
- Midwives and Maori women: Advancing our relationships
- Options for women around fertility and reproduction
- Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
- Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
- Ethical frameworks for practice
- Sustaining midwifery practice
- Theoretical frameworks for midwifery practice
- Working in partnership
- Working in collaboration
- Promoting physiological birth
- The physiology of conception and pregnancy
- Nutrition and physical activity foundation for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation
- Screening and assessment
- Working with women in pregnancy
- Physiological changes during labour
- Supporting women in labour and birth
- Working with pain in labour
- Using water for labour and birth
- Perineal care and repair
- Physiological changes during the postnatal period
- Supporting women becoming mothers
- Transitions to motherhood
- Supporting the newborn infant
- Supporting the breastfeeding mother
- Completing the midwife-woman partnership
- Pharmacology and prescribing
- Contraception
- Challenges in pregnancy
- Disturbances in the rhythm of labour
- Interventions in pregnancy labour and birth
- Maternal life-threatening emergencies
- Complications in the post-natal period for the mother
- The compromised neonate
- Grief and loss during childbearing
"This is an outstanding book for midwifery students. It is up to date and above average in quality."
- Julie Baker-Townsend, DNP, WHNP- BC, FNP-BC (University of North Florida Brooks College of Health) Doody’s Review: 93 – 4 Stars!
