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    Skills for midwifery practice / Ruth Johnson, Wendy Taylor.

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    • Title:Skills for midwifery practice / Ruth Johnson, Wendy Taylor.
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    • Author/Creator:Johnson, Ruth, RGN, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Taylor, Wendy, 1960- author.
    • Published/Created:Edinburgh : Elsevier, [2016]
      ©2016

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Midwifery.
    • Medical Subjects: Midwifery--methods.
    • Genre/Form:Handbooks and manuals.
    • Edition:Fourth edition.
    • Description:ix, 462 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    • Summary:'Skills for Midwifery Practice' continues to provide the ideal level of instruction and guidance for a wide range of clinical skills, each one presented in a template format to help make learning easy. Step-by-step guidance is given on a range of topics including abdominal examination, taking of maternal and neonatal vital signs, infection control, mother and baby hygiene, elimination and drug administration. Childbearing and intrapartum skills are also extensively covered as are neonatal assessment and nutrition, principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy, moving and handling, wound management and CPR.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780702061875 paperback
      0702061875 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Principles of abdominal examination: during pregnancy and labour
      2. Principles of abdominal examination: during the postnatal period
      3. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: temperature measurement
      4. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: pulse measurement
      5. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: blood pressure measurement
      6. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: respiration
      7. Assessment of maternal and neonatal vital signs: neurological assessment
      8. Principles of infection control: standard precautions
      9. Principles of infection control: hand hygiene
      10. Principles of infection control: principles of asepsis
      11. Principles of infection control: obtaining swabs
      12. Principles of hygiene needs: for the woman
      13. Principles of hygiene needs: for the baby
      14. Principles of elimination management: micturition and catheterization
      15. Principles of elimination management: urinalysis
      16. Principles of elimination management: defaecation
      17. Principles of elimination management: obtaining urinary and stool specimens
      18. Principles of drug administration: legal aspects, pharmacokinetics and anaphylaxis
      19. Principles of drug administration: oral administration
      20. Principles of drug administration: injection technique
      21. Principles of drug administration: administration of medicines per vaginam
      22. Principles of drug administration: administration of medicines per rectum
      23. Principles of drug administration: intravenous drug administration
      24. Principles of drug administration: inhalational analgesia: Entonox
      25. Principles of drug administration: epidural analgesia
      26. Principles of drug administration: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
      27. Facilitation of skills related to childbearing: optimal fetal positioning
      28. Facilitation of skills related to childbearing: Cusco speculum use
      29. Facilitation of skills related to childbearing: membrane sweep
      30. Principles of intrapartum skills: first-stage issues
      31. Principles of intrapartum skills: second-stage issues
      32. Principles of intrapartum skills: third-stage issues
      33. Principles of intrapartum skills: examination of the placenta
      34. Principles of intrapartum skills: perineal repair
      35. Principles of intrapartum skills: management of birth at home
      36. Principles of intrapartum skills: management of labour and birth in water
      37. Assessment of the baby: assessment at birth
      38. Assessment of the baby: daily examination
      39. Assessment of the baby: capillary sampling
      40. Assessment of the baby: developmental dysplasia of the hips
      41. Principles of infant nutrition: breastfeeding
      42. Principles of infant nutrition: cup feeding
      43. Principles of infant nutrition: decontamination of feeding equipment
      44. Principles of infant nutrition: formula feeding
      45. Principles of infant nutrition: nasogastric feeding
      46. Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: maternal venepuncture
      47. Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: intravenous cannulation
      48. Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous therapy: intravenous infusion
      49. Principles of phlebotomy and intravenous infusion: blood transfusion
      50. Principles of manual handling
      51. Principles of perioperative skills
      52. Principles of wound management: healing and care
      53. Principles of restricted mobility management: pressure area care
      54. Principles of restricted mobility management: prevention of venous thromboembolism
      55. Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: maternal resuscitation
      56. Principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: neonatal resuscitation.
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