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. INDICE: Foreword .Preface .Biographies .Part 1 The basics of care .Section 1 Infection control .1 Infection prevention and Control. Rose Gallagher and Doreen Crawford .2 Hand hygiene Ian Peate .3 Infectious diseases in Pregnancy Nicola Winson .4 Modes of Transmission Ian Peate .5 Asepsis and sepsis Rose Gallagher .Section 2 Health and safety at work .6 Moving and Handling Sarah Emberley .7 The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Kim Sunley .8 Safety in the Working Environment Kim Sunley .9 Sharps injuries Rose Gallagher .10 Working safely in the community Carmel Bagness .Section 3 Personal hygiene care .11 Personal hygiene care for women Pat Lindsay .12 Perineal and vulval hygiene; use of bedpans and commodes Pat Lindsay .13 Pressure area care Pat Lindsay .Section 4 Quality and patient safety in maternity care .14 Risk Management, liability and avoidable harm David Foster and Helen Williams .15 Types of Incident, incident reporting, record keeping and duty of candour David Foster and Helen Williams .16 Audit and quality Assurance in Maternity Care David Foster and Helen Williams .Section 5 Safeguarding .17 Safeguarding vulnerable women Carmel Bagness .18 Safeguarding: Key Issues Helen Crafter .19 Female genital mutilation Marianne Mitchell .Part 2 Assessment, examination, screening and care of the woman and baby .Section 6 Assessment of the woman .20 Booking : the initial consultation with the midwife Carmel Bagness .21 The antenatal appointment: physical and psychological assessment of the woman in pregnancy Carmel Bagness .22 Abdominal Examination in Pregnancy Sarah Emberley .23 Physical and Emotional Assessment after Birth Helen Simpson .Section 7 Care of the woman in labour .24 Assessing the woman in labour Julie Jones .25 Abdominal examination in labour Sheena Simpson .26 Vaginal Examinations in labour Jenny Brewster .27 Positions in Labour and Birth Andrea Aras–Payne .28 Supporting and Caring for Women in Labour Marcia Bartholomew .29 Supporting and caring for the partner Pat Lindsay .30 Care of the perineum in labour including episiotomy and suturing Adelaide Aduboffour .31 Examination of the placenta and membranes Jancis Shepherd .32 Urinary catheterisation Clare Beaumont .Section 8 The fetus in pregnancy and labour .33 Assessing Fetal Wellbeing in Pregnancy and Labour Karen Bartholomew .34 Monitoring the Fetal Heart in Pregnancy and Labour Sara Smith .Section 9 Assessment and examination of the neonate .35 The APGAR score Sandy Wong .36 The Midwife s examination of the baby at birth including identification of the neonate Maureen Raynor .37 Appearance and characteristics of the well term neonate Pat Lindsay .38 Overall daily assessment of the term neonate including vital signs and bladder and bowel function Tina South .39 Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Lindsay Rose .40 The term, preterm and growth restricted baby Pat Lindsay .Section 10 Caring for the newborn .41 Providing daily hygiene for the neonate including changing a nappy Sophie French .42 Bathing the newborn Sophie French .43 Breast feeding Alison Busby .44 Formula Feeding Caroline Hunter .45 Other feeding methods Pat Lindsay .46 Neonatal blood screening ( heel prick ) Sandy Wong .Section 11 Blood sampling and cannulation .47 Maternal Venepuncture, including Glucose Tolerance testing Sarah Emberley .48 Cord blood and neonatal capillary blood sampling Shauna Gnanapragasam and Maxine Wallis–Redworth .49 Venous cannulation of the woman Pat Lindsay .Section 12 Taking and testing other body samples .50 Urinalysis Maureen Boyle .51 Specimen collection– stool specimen Rose Gallagher .52 Taking a wound swab Rose Gallagher .53 Use of a vaginal speculum and taking a vaginal swab Julie Jones .Part 3 The woman or neonate with different needs .Section 13 Induction / stimulation of labour .54 Membrane Sweep Lyn Jones .55 Insertion of vaginal Prostaglandin E2 Lyn Jones .56 Artificial rupture of membranes Lyn Jones .Section 14 Care skills for the woman with complex needs .57 Recognising the deteriorating woman Louise Jenkins .58 CVP, SaO2, ECGs David Quayle .59 Fluid Balance Monitoring Sophie French .60 Peak flow measurement in the woman Sophie French .61 MEOWS, AVPU, GCS & SBAR Louise Jenkins .62 Care of the deceased Pat Lindsay .Section 15 Care skills for the baby with complex needs .63 Recognising deterioration in the neonate Elisabeth Podsiadly .64 Neonatal Jaundice Elisabeth Podsiadly .65 Hypoglycaemia Elisabeth Podsiadly .66 Hypothermia Elisabeth Podsiadly .Section 16 Wound care .67 Wound assessment Adelaide Aduboffour .68 Wound dressings and drains Hazel Turner .69 Wound Closures Hazel Turner .Section 17 Prevention of venous thrombo–embolism (VTE) .70 Assessment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk and prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) in childbirth Jayne Marshall .71 Application and use of Compression Stockings Jayne Marshall .Part 4 Drug administration in midwifery .Section 18 Routes of administration .72 Drug administration, handling and storage Kate Nash .73 Administration by injection to the woman Clare Beaumont .74 Intravenous administration of drugs Antonio Sierra .75 Medicine administration by oral, rectal, vaginal, topical and inhalation routes Pat Lindsay .76 Neonatal drug administration Shauna Gnanapragasam and Maxine Wallis–Redworth .77 Immunisation Helen Donovan .Section 19 Pain relief .78 Regional Analgesia Marcia Bartholomew .79 Non–pharmacological methods of pain relief Marcia Bartholomew .80 Transfusion of Blood and Blood Products Martha Murtagh .81 Anti–D: preventing rhesus iso–immunisation Judy Bothamley .Glossary .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-119-23391-6
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés