| Description |
2 volumes (xxii, 1059, 28 pages) : color illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
BOOK 1 -- SECTION 1: CONTEXT -- Chapter 1: The Australian and New Zealand context -- Chapter 2: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services -- Chapter 3: Human rights in childbirth -- Chapter 4: Fear and risk -- Chapter 5: Midwifery as primary health -- Chapter 6: Birth place and birth space -- Chapter 7: Ways of looking at evidence and measurement -- SECTION 2: THE WOMAN -- Chapter 8: Social and environmental determinations of women's health -- Chapter 9: Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women -- Chapter 10: Midwives and Maori women: advancing our relationships -- Chapter 11: Options for women around fertility and reproduction -- SECTION 3: THE MIDWIFE -- Chapter 12: Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand -- Chapter 13: Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand -- Chapter 14: Supporting midwives, supporting each other -- Chapter 15: Midwifery partnership -- Chapter 16: Working in collaboration -- Chapter 17: Promoting physiological birth -- BOOK 2 -- SECTION 1: AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE -- Chapter 18: Overview of reproductive physiology -- Chapter 19: Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation -- Chapter 20: Screening and assessment -- Chapter 21: Working with women in pregnancy -- Chapter 22: Applied physiology for labour and birth -- Chapter 23: Supporting women in labour and birth -- Chapter 24: Working with pain in labour -- Chapter 25: Using water for labour and birth -- Chapter 26: Perineal care and repair -- Chapter 27: Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period -- Chapter 28: Supporting women becoming mothers -- Chapter 29: Supporting the newborn -- Chapter 30: Supporting the breastfeeding mother -- Chapter 31: Pharmacology and prescribing -- Chapter 32: Contraception -- SECTION 2: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE -- Chapter 33: Women's psycho-social health and wellbeing -- Chapter 34: Variations in normal -- Chapter 35: Challenges in pregnancy -- Chapter 36: Disturbances in the rhythm of labour -- Chapter 37: Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth -- Chapter 38: Life-threatening emergencies -- Chapter 39: Complications in the post-natal period for the mother -- Chapter 40: The compromised neonate -- Chapter 41: Grief and loss during childbearing -- the crying times |
| Summary |
Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) and the New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM), Midwifery: Preparation for Practice has long been upheld as the definitive midwifery text for Australian and New Zealand midwifery students. Now in its 4th edition, the text presents a global model of midwifery best practice that is supported by a range of examples from the Australian, New Zealand and international midwifery contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Midwifery
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Maternity nursing
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Midwifery -- Australia
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Midwifery -- New Zealand
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Maternity nursing -- Australia
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Maternity nursing -- New Zealand
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Midwifery
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Pregnancy -- physiology
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Australia |
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New Zealand |
| Reading List |
HNM211 prescribed text 2024
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HNM333 prescribed text 2024
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HNM711 prescribed text 2024
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| Author |
Pairman, Sally, editor
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Tracy, Sally, editor
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Dahlen, Hannah G., editor
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Dixon, Lesley, 1960- editor
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Australian College of Midwives
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New Zealand College of Midwives
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| ISBN |
9780729542678 |
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072954267X |
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9780729543149 |
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0729543145 |
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9780729543156 |
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0729543153 |
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