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Midwifery Essentials: Antenatal

Volume 2

'Antenatal' is the second title in the Midwifery Essentials series and looks at the provision of safe and effective antenatal care, exploring the role of the midwife in the co… Leer más

Descripción

'Antenatal' is the second title in the Midwifery Essentials series and looks at the provision of safe and effective antenatal care, exploring the role of the midwife in the context of professional and national guidance. This book prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred maternity care.

Puntos claves

    • Models of care and the range of professionals involved

    • The booking history and involving the woman in decisions

    • Optimising and monitoring maternal health throughout pregnancy

    • Blood tests and antenatal screening for fetal abnormality

    • Monitoring the growing fetus

    • Facilitating women to prepare for birth.

De interès para

student and practising midwives; labour ward personnel; nurses undertaking midwifery training

Índice

Antenatal Volume:


1. Introduction


2. Models of antenatal care: the options available


3. The booking history


4. Health in pregnancy


5. Monitoring maternal physical well being


6. Monitoring women’s emotional wellbeing in the antenatal period


7. Blood tests in pregnancy


8. Antenatal screening for fetal abnormality


9. Monitoring fetal wellbeing during routine antenatal care


10. Antenatal care – preparing for the birth

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Sobre los autores

HB

Helen Baston

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Consultant Midwife Public Health, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Researcher / Lecturer, University of Sheffield; Honorary Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

JH

Jennifer Hall

EdD RM ADM MSc (Reproduction & Health) PGDip(HE)
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Independent Midwifery Educator and Researcher, Bristol, UK