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.
Author(s): Patricia Lindsay, Carmel Bagness, Ian Peate
Series: At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 200
City: Hoboken
Midwifery Skills at a Glance
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Part 1 The basics of care
Infection control
1 Infection prevention and control
2 Hand hygiene
3 Infectious diseases in pregnancy
4 Modes of transmission
5 Asepsis and sepsis
Health and safety at work
6 Moving and handling
7 The control of substances hazardous to health
8 Safety in the working environment
9 Sharps injuries
10 Working safely in the community
Personal hygiene care
11 Personal hygiene care for women
12 Perineal and vulval hygiene; use of bedpans and commodes
13 Pressure area care
Quality and patient safety in maternity care
14 Risk management, liability and avoidable harm
15 Types of incident, incident reporting, record keeping and duty of candour
16 Audit and quality assurance in maternity care
Safeguarding
17 Safeguarding vulnerable women
18 Safeguarding of children: key issues
19 Female genital mutilation
Part 2 Assessment, examination, screening and care of the woman and baby
Assessment of the woman
20 ‘Booking’: the initial consultation with the midwife
21 The antenatal appointment: physical and psychological assessment of the woman in pregnancy
22 Abdominal examination in pregnancy
23 Physical and emotional assessment after birth
Care of the woman in labour
24 Assessing the woman in labour
25 Abdominal examination in labour
26 Vaginal examinations in labour
27 Positions in labour and birth
28 Supporting and caring for women in labour
29 Supporting and caring for the partner
30 Care of the perineum in labour including episiotomy and suturing
31 Examination of the placenta and membranes
32 Urinary catheterisation
The fetus in pregnancy and labour
33 Assessing fetal wellbeing in pregnancy and labour
34 Monitoring the fetal heart in pregnancy and labour
Assessment and examination of the neonate
35 The Apgar score
36 The midwife’s examination of the baby at birth including identification of the neonate
37 Appearance and characteristics of the well term neonate
38 Overall daily assessment of the term neonate including vital signs and bladder and bowel function
39 Newborn and infant physical examination
40 The term, preterm and growth-restricted baby
Caring for the newborn
41 Providing daily hygiene for the neonate including changing a nappy
42 Bathing the newborn
43 Breastfeeding
44 Formula feeding
45 Other feeding methods
46 Neonatal blood screening (‘heel prick’)
Blood sampling and cannulation
47 Maternal venepuncture, including glucose tolerance testing
48 Cord blood and neonatal capillary blood sampling
49 Venous cannulation of the woman
Taking and testing other body samples
50 Urinalysis
51 Specimen collection – stool specimen
52 Taking a wound swab
53 Use of a vaginal speculum and taking a vaginal swab
Part 3 The woman or neonate with different needs
Induction/stimulation of labour
54 Membrane sweep
55 Insertion of vaginal prostaglandin E2
56 Artificial rupture of membranes
Care skills for the woman with complex needs
57 Recognising the deteriorating woman
58 CVP, Spo2 and ECGs
59 Fluid balance monitoring
60 Peak flow measurement in the woman
61 MEOWS, AVPU, GCS and SBAR
62 Care of the deceased
Care skills for the baby with complex needs
63 Recognising deterioration in the neonate
64 Neonatal jaundice
65 Hypoglycaemia
66 Hypothermia
Wound care
67 Wound assessment
68 Wound dressings and drains
69 Wound closures
Prevention of venous thromboembolism
70 Assessment of venous thromboembolism risk and prevention of deep vein thrombosis in childbirth
71 Application and use of compression stockings
Part 4 Drug administration in midwifery
Routes of administration
72 Drug administration, handling and storage
73 Administration by injection to the woman
74 Intravenous administration of drugs
75 Medicine administration by oral, rectal, vaginal, topical and inhalation routes
76 Neonatal drug administration
77 Immunisation
Pain relief
78 Regional analgesia
79 Non-pharmacological methods of pain relief
80 Transfusion of blood and blood products
81 Anti-D: preventing rhesus isoimmunisation
Appendices
Key references and further reading
Glossary
Index
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