Community midwifery practice
By: edited by Jenny Edwins
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781405148955
Description: Practical and skills-based, this text has been specifically tailored to meet the needs of community midwives. The book includes community-based scenarios and case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ways of working in the community / Jenny Edwins; title: Watching and waiting: the facilitation of birth at home / Kim Russell; title: Home birth against advice / Elaine Newell; title: Physiological third stage of labour and birth at home / Susan Blackburn; title: Teaching antenatal classes: how can midwives deliver? / Ann Bradshaw; title: Newborn screening revisited: what midwives need to know / Nadia Permalloo and Jean Chapple; title: Breastfeeding and the role of the community midwife / Caroline Payne; title: Safeguarding children / Judy Byrne; title: Perinatal mental health / Sarah Snow; title: Supporting pregnant women living with HIV / Carolyn Roth and Judith Sunderland; title: Domestic abuse: supporting women and asking the question / Ruth Jones; title: Pelvic girdle pain (formerly known as symphysis pubis dysfunction) / Dianne Garland.