• Midwifery Essentials: Postnatal; Volume 4 (Paperback) 9780702071003
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Midwifery Essentials: Postnatal
Volume 4

Helen Baston (Author), Jennifer Hall (Author)

9780702071003

Paperback, published 26 June 2017

200 pages
18.7 x 11.1 x 1.4 cm, 0.18 kg

New edition of a title in the popular Midwifery Essentials series originally published in conjunction with The Practising Midwife journal. The series covers core topics in midwifery education in an engaging and friendly format using a helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach which encourages readers to explore topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. effective communication, team working and health promotion. Helpful ‘scenarios’ throughout each volume encourage debate and reflection, core elements of midwifery education.

  • Fully updated to provide a useful, friendly source of information

  • Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care

  • Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures

  • Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision

  • Helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion

  • Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures

  • Chapters designed to be read as a ‘standalone’ or in succession

  • Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication
  • Makes reference to the latest national and international guidelines

  • Contains new scenarios to reflect recent changes in practice

  • Improved layout aids retention and learning

  • Fully updated throughout with the latest evidence base for clinical skills and procedures

  • Embraces the principles of ‘Better Births’

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Postnatal care: principles and practice

Chapter 3 Care of the baby at birth

Chapter 4 Examination of the newborn

Chapter 5 Hospital postnatal care

Chapter 6 Postoperative care following a caesarean

Chapter 7 Postnatal care in the community

Chapter 8 Emotional well-being following birth

Chapter 9 Formula feeding

Chapter 10 Supporting the mother to feed her baby

Subject Areas: Midwifery [MQD]
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