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Volume 2
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By
Helen Baston, BA(Hons), MMedSci, PhD, PGDipEd, ADM, RN, RM, Lead Midwife for Education; Supervisor of Midwives, Mother & Infant Research Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
Jennifer Hall, MSc, ADM, PGDip(HE), RN, RM, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK; Clinical Editor, The Practising Midwife
Included in series
Midwifery Essentials,
Description
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.
- 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.
Audience
student and practising midwives; labour ward personnel; nurses undertaking midwifery training
Contents
Antenatal Volume:
1. Introduction
2. Models of antenatal care: the options available
3. The booking history
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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
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 176 pages, publication date: SEP-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10354-4
ISBN-10: 0-443-10354-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 20 Feb 2010
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