Midwifery Skills at a Glance 1st Edition by Patricia Lindsay, Carmel Bagness, Ian Peate 9781119233916 1119233917

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ISBN 10: 1119233917

ISBN 13: 9781119233916

Author: Patricia Lindsay, Carmel Bagness, Ian P Peate

Being an effective midwife requires a range of knowledge and skills, all of which are essential to provide competent and safe care to childbearing women and their infants. Midwifery Skills at a Glance offers an invaluable, straightforward guide for students and practitioners – offering readable, easily digestible information, supported with illustrations throughout to enhance application to practice.

Clear and concise throughout, Midwifery Skills at a Glance covers a wide range of skills – exploring issues such as infection control, personal hygiene care, and safeguarding; assessment, examination and screening skills; how to care for the woman and neonate with complex needs; drug administration and pain relief. 

• A comprehensive, highly visual guide to the skills essential for safe, effective, and compassionate midwifery practice
• Written by experts in their field
• Briefly describes each skill and provides clear illustrations — making it an ideal companion in clinical practice
• Offers instruction on the safe use of a wide range of essential skills required to deliver safe, evidence-based maternity care
• Includes service user viewpoints and key points to help consolidate learning and reflect on the experience of receiving care 

Written with the student midwife in mind, Midwifery Skills at a Glance is equally invaluable for all others providing care, including Maternity Support Workers, mentors, registered midwives and medical students. 

Table of contents:

Part 1: The basics of care
Chapter 1. Infection prevention and control
Chapter 2. Hand hygiene
Chapter 3. Infectious diseases in pregnancy
Chapter 4. Modes of transmission
Chapter 5. Asepsis and sepsis
Chapter 6. Moving and handling
Chapter 7. The control of substances hazardous to health
Chapter 8. Safety in the working environment
Chapter 9. Sharps injuries
Chapter 10. Working safely in the community
Chapter 11. Personal hygiene care for women
Chapter 12. Perineal and vulval hygiene; use of bedpans and commodes
Chapter 13. Pressure area care
Chapter 14. Risk management, liability and avoidable harm
Chapter 15. Types of incident, incident reporting, record keeping and duty of candour
Chapter 16. Audit and quality assurance in maternity care
Chapter 17. Safeguarding vulnerable women
Chapter 18. Safeguarding of children: key issues
Chapter 19. Female genital mutilation

Part 2: Assessment, examination, screening and care of the woman and baby
Chapter 20. ‘Booking’: the initial consultation with the midwife
Chapter 21. The antenatal appointment: physical and psychological assessment of the woman in pregnancy
Chapter 22. Abdominal examination in pregnancy
Chapter 23. Physical and emotional assessment after birth
Chapter 24. Assessing the woman in labour
Chapter 25. Abdominal examination in labour
Chapter 26. Vaginal examinations in labour
Chapter 27. Positions in labour and birth
Chapter 28. Supporting and caring for women in labour
Chapter 29. Supporting and caring for the partner
Chapter 30. Care of the perineum in labour including episiotomy and suturing
Chapter 31. Examination of the placenta and membranes
Chapter 32. Urinary catheterisation
Chapter 33. Assessing fetal wellbeing in pregnancy and labour
Chapter 34. Monitoring the fetal heart in pregnancy and labour
Chapter 35. The Apgar score
Chapter 36. The midwife’s examination of the baby at birth including identification of the neonate
Chapter 37. Appearance and characteristics of the well term neonate
Chapter 38. Overall daily assessment of the term neonate including vital signs and bladder and bowel function
Chapter 39. Newborn and infant physical examination
Chapter 40. The term, preterm and growth-restricted baby
Chapter 41. Providing daily hygiene for the neonate including changing a nappy
Chapter 42. Bathing the newborn
Chapter 43. Breastfeeding
Chapter 44. Formula feeding
Chapter 45. Other feeding methods
Chapter 46. Neonatal blood screening (‘heel prick’)
Chapter 47. Maternal venepuncture, including glucose tolerance testing
Chapter 48. Cord blood and neonatal capillary blood sampling
Chapter 49. Venous cannulation of the woman
Chapter 50. Urinalysis
Chapter 51. Specimen collection – stool specimen
Chapter 52. Taking a wound swab
Chapter 53. Use of a vaginal speculum and taking a vaginal swab

Part 3: The woman or neonate with different needs
Chapter 54. Membrane sweep
Chapter 55. Insertion of vaginal prostaglandin E2
Chapter 56. Artificial rupture of membranes
Chapter 57. Recognising the deteriorating woman
Chapter 58. CVP, Spo2 and ECGs
Chapter 59. Fluid balance monitoring
Chapter 60. Peak flow measurement in the woman
Chapter 61. MEOWS, AVPU, GCS and SBAR
Chapter 62. Care of the deceased
Chapter 63. Recognising deterioration in the neonate
Chapter 64. Neonatal jaundice
Chapter 65. Hypoglycaemia
Chapter 66. Hypothermia
Chapter 67. Wound assessment
Chapter 68. Wound dressings and drains
Chapter 69. Wound closures
Chapter 70. Assessment of venous thromboembolism risk and prevention of deep vein thrombosis in childbirth
Chapter 71. Application and use of compression stockings

Part 4: Drug administration in midwifery
Chapter 72. Drug administration, handling and storage
Chapter 73. Administration by injection to the woman
Chapter 74. Intravenous administration of drugs
Chapter 75. Medicine administration by oral, rectal, vaginal, topical and inhalation routes
Chapter 76. Neonatal drug administration
Chapter 77. Immunisation
Chapter 78. Regional analgesia
Chapter 79. Non-pharmacological methods of pain relief
Chapter 80. Transfusion of blood and blood products
Chapter 81. Anti-D: preventing rhesus isoimmunisation

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