A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives

A Pocket guide for Student Midwives, 2nd edition is an accessible, portable book offering student midwives everything they need to grasp the key elements of midwifery language, knowledge and skills.
The new edition of this useful ‘aide memoire’ is structured in two parts. The first includes relevant terms, abbreviations and definitions. The second part is a quick A–Z reference guide to common conditions, procedures, emergency situations, and supporting information enhanced by visual material to aid comprehension of normality and anomalies. The innovative action flow charts enables rapid access to information that logically guides the reader through procedures in potentially life threatening situations, in both home and hospital settings.
A Pocket guide for Student Midwives, 2nd edition is essential reading for the new non–nurse student midwife, the experienced nurse entering the midwifery profession, and senior student midwives alike.A handy portable ‘survival guide’ for student midwivesFully updated to include the latest NMC directives, legislation, and policiesIncludes flow charts, illustrations, and activities

Spis treści:
About the authors.
Preface.
Section 1 The Language of Midwifery.
Section 2 Quick Reference Topics.
Figure 1 Antepartum haemorrhage.
Figure 2 APGAR score.
Figure 3 Neonatal resuscitation.
Figure 4 Cord prolapse – presentation – at home.
Figure 5 Cord prolapse – presentation – in hospital.
Figure 6 Management of third stage – physiological and active.
Figure 7 Management of third stage – alternative active management.
Figure 14 Disseminated intravascular coagulation DIC.
Figure 15 Eclampsia.
Figure 27 Genetic inheritance e.g. PKU.
Figure 37 Postpartum haemorrhage – primary.
Figure 38 Postpartum haemorrhage – secondary.
F igure 39 Retained placenta – at home.
Figure 40 Retained placenta – in hospital.
Figure 41 Shoulder dystocia.
Figure 42 Uterine inversion.
Figure 43 Uterine rupture.
References.