SECTION 1: GENERAL SKILLSPart 1: Principles of infection controlChapter 1: Standard Precautions and hand hygieneChapter 2: AsepsisChapter 3: Principles of hygiene needsPart 2: Vital signsChapter 4: TemperatureChapter 5: PulseChapter 5: RespirationChapter 7: Blood pressureChapter 8: Neurological assessmentPart 3: Screening and TestingChapter 9: Screening testsChapter 10: Venepuncture Chapter 11: CannulationChapter 12: Obtaining SwabsChapter 13: Use of SpeculumChapter 14: Capillary samplingPart 4: Principles of elimination managementChapter 15: Micturition and catherisations Chapter 16: Urine samplesChapter 17: Defaecation and stool specimens Part 5: Principles of drug administrationChapter 18: Medication administration: Legal aspects, pharmacology and anaphylaxis Chapter 19: OralChapter 20: Per vaginumChapter 21: Per rectumChapter 22: By infectionChapter 23: Intravenous medications and intravenous therapyChapter 24: Blood and iron transfusion Chapter 25: InhalationPart 6: Skills for supporting antenatal wellbeingChapter 26: Building a therapeutic relationshipChapter 27: Abdominal examination during pregnancy Chapter 28: Interprofessional working to optimise women’s antenatal carePart 7: Skills for preparing women for labour, birth and early parentingChapter 29: Facilitating learning through the childbearing episode

SECTION 2: WORKING WITH THE WOMAN AND BABY DURING LABOUR AND BIRTHPart 1: Monitoring well-being in early labourChapter 30: Principles of intrapartum skills: first-stage issuesChapter 31: Abdominal Examination During LabourChapter 32: Membrane SweepChapter 33: Fetal Heart MonitoringChapter 34: Non-pharmacological pain reliefChapter 35: Management of labour and birth in waterChapter 36: Birth at HomePart 2: Monitoring well-being in established labourChapter 37: Amniotomy, Fetal Scalp Electrode, Fetal Blood Sampling Chapter 38: Pain Relief – inhalational and regional analgesia: Entonox and Epidural Part 3: Monitoring wellbeing during the expulsive phaseChapter 39: Intrapartum skills in the second stageChapter 40: Management of the perineum Chapter 41: Assisted and operative birthChapter 42: Maternal and infant resuscitation Part 4: Monitoring wellbeing during and after the third stageChapter 43: Principles of intrapartum skills: third stageChapter 44: Management of the third stage blood loss (Management of PPH)Chapter 45: Examination of the genital tract following delivery

SECTION 3: WORKING WITH THE WOMAN AND BABY AFTER BIRTHPart 1: Skills for optimising the woman’s and baby’s physiological wellbeingChapter 46: Promoting physiological stability in the mother-baby dyad in the first 24 hours after birthChapter 47¿ Caring for a woman after a caesarean sectionChapter 48: Caring for the baby’s physiological wellbeing after birthPart 2: Skills for supporting the woman to feed her babyChapter 49: Supporting the woman to initiate breastfeedingChapter 50: Supporting the woman who chooses to formula feed

SECTION 4: GENERAL SKILLSPart 1: Self careChapter 51: Manual handlingChapter 52: Occupational Health and Safety