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.
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1 - Midwifery Skills at a Glance [Seite 3]
2 - Contents [Seite 7]
3 - Contributors [Seite 10]
4 - Foreword [Seite 13]
5 - Preface [Seite 14]
6 - Part 1 The basics of care [Seite 15]
6.1 - Infection control [Seite 16]
6.1.1 - 1 Infection prevention and control [Seite 16]
6.1.2 - 2 Hand hygiene [Seite 18]
6.1.3 - 3 Infectious diseases in pregnancy [Seite 20]
6.1.4 - 4 Modes of transmission [Seite 22]
6.1.5 - 5 Asepsis and sepsis [Seite 24]
6.2 - Health and safety at work [Seite 26]
6.2.1 - 6 Moving and handling [Seite 26]
6.2.2 - 7 The control of substances hazardous to health [Seite 28]
6.2.3 - 8 Safety in the working environment [Seite 30]
6.2.4 - 9 Sharps injuries [Seite 32]
6.2.5 - 10 Working safely in the community [Seite 34]
6.3 - Personal hygiene care [Seite 36]
6.3.1 - 11 Personal hygiene care for women [Seite 36]
6.3.2 - 12 Perineal and vulval hygiene [Seite 38]
6.3.3 - 13 Pressure area care [Seite 40]
6.4 - Quality and patient safety in maternity care [Seite 42]
6.4.1 - 14 Risk management, liability and avoidable harm [Seite 42]
6.4.2 - 15 Types of incident, incident reporting, record keeping and duty of candour [Seite 44]
6.4.3 - 16 Audit and quality assurance in maternity care [Seite 46]
6.5 - Safeguarding [Seite 48]
6.5.1 - 17 Safeguarding vulnerable women [Seite 48]
6.5.2 - 18 Safeguarding of children: key issues [Seite 50]
6.5.3 - 19 Female genital mutilation [Seite 52]
7 - Part 2 Assessment, examination, screening and care of the woman and baby [Seite 55]
7.1 - Assessment of the woman [Seite 56]
7.1.1 - 20 'Booking': the initial consultation with the midwife [Seite 56]
7.1.2 - 21 The antenatal appointment: physical and psychological assessment of the woman in pregnancy [Seite 58]
7.1.3 - 22 Abdominal examination in pregnancy [Seite 60]
7.1.4 - 23 Physical and emotional assessment after birth [Seite 62]
7.2 - Care of the woman in labour [Seite 64]
7.2.1 - 24 Assessing the woman in labour [Seite 64]
7.2.2 - 25 Abdominal examination in labour [Seite 66]
7.2.3 - 26 Vaginal examinations in labour [Seite 68]
7.2.4 - 27 Positions in labour and birth [Seite 70]
7.2.5 - 28 Supporting and caring for women in labour [Seite 72]
7.2.6 - 29 Supporting and caring for the partner [Seite 74]
7.2.7 - 30 Care of the perineum in labour including episiotomy and suturing [Seite 76]
7.2.8 - 31 Examination of the placenta and membranes [Seite 78]
7.2.9 - 32 Urinary catheterisation [Seite 80]
7.3 - The fetus in pregnancy and labour [Seite 82]
7.3.1 - 33 Assessing fetal wellbeing in pregnancy and labour [Seite 82]
7.3.2 - 34 Monitoring the fetal heart in pregnancy and labour [Seite 84]
7.4 - Assessment and examination of the neonate [Seite 86]
7.4.1 - 35 The Apgar score [Seite 86]
7.4.2 - 36 The midwife's examination of the baby at birth including identification of the neonate [Seite 88]
7.4.3 - 37 Appearance and characteristics of the well term neonate [Seite 90]
7.4.4 - 38 Overall daily assessment of the term neonate including vital signs and bladder and bowel function [Seite 92]
7.4.5 - 39 Newborn and infant physical examination [Seite 94]
7.4.6 - 40 The term, preterm and growth-restricted baby [Seite 96]
7.5 - Caring for the newborn [Seite 98]
7.5.1 - 41 Providing daily hygiene for the neonate including changing a nappy [Seite 98]
7.5.2 - 42 Bathing the newborn [Seite 100]
7.5.3 - 43 Breastfeeding [Seite 102]
7.5.4 - 44 Formula feeding [Seite 104]
7.5.5 - 45 Other feeding methods [Seite 106]
7.5.6 - 46 Neonatal blood screening ('heel prick') [Seite 108]
7.6 - Blood sampling and cannulation [Seite 110]
7.6.1 - 47 Maternal venepuncture, including glucose tolerance testing [Seite 110]
7.6.2 - 48 Cord blood and neonatal capillary blood sampling [Seite 112]
7.6.3 - 49 Venous cannulation of the woman [Seite 114]
7.7 - Taking and testing other body samples [Seite 116]
7.7.1 - 50 Urinalysis [Seite 116]
7.7.2 - 51 Specimen collection - stool specimen [Seite 118]
7.7.3 - 52 Taking a wound swab [Seite 120]
7.7.4 - 53 Use of a vaginal speculum and taking a vaginal swab [Seite 122]
8 - Part 3 The woman or neonate with different needs [Seite 125]
8.1 - Induction/stimulation of labour [Seite 126]
8.1.1 - 54 Membrane sweep [Seite 126]
8.1.2 - 55 Insertion of vaginal prostaglandin E2 [Seite 128]
8.1.3 - 56 Artificial rupture of membranes [Seite 130]
8.2 - Care skills for the woman with complex needs [Seite 132]
8.2.1 - 57 Recognising the deteriorating woman [Seite 132]
8.2.2 - 58 CVP, Spo2 and ECGs [Seite 134]
8.2.3 - 59 Fluid balance monitoring [Seite 136]
8.2.4 - 60 Peak flow measurement in the woman [Seite 138]
8.2.5 - 61 MEOWS, AVPU, GCS and SBAR [Seite 140]
8.2.6 - 62 Care of the deceased [Seite 142]
8.3 - Care skills for the baby with complex needs [Seite 144]
8.3.1 - 63 Recognising deterioration in the neonate [Seite 144]
8.3.2 - 64 Neonatal jaundice [Seite 146]
8.3.3 - 65 Hypoglycaemia [Seite 148]
8.3.4 - 66 Hypothermia [Seite 150]
8.4 - Wound care [Seite 152]
8.4.1 - 67 Wound assessment [Seite 152]
8.4.2 - 68 Wound dressings and drains [Seite 154]
8.4.3 - 69 Wound closures [Seite 156]
8.5 - Prevention of venous thromboembolism [Seite 158]
8.5.1 - 70 Assessment of venous thromboembolism risk and prevention of deep vein thrombosis in childbirth [Seite 158]
8.5.2 - 71 Application and use of compression stockings [Seite 160]
9 - Part 4 Drug administration in midwifery [Seite 163]
9.1 - Routes of administration [Seite 164]
9.1.1 - 72 Drug administration, handling and storage [Seite 164]
9.1.2 - 73 Administration by injection to the woman [Seite 166]
9.1.3 - 74 Intravenous administration of drugs [Seite 168]
9.1.4 - 75 Medicine administration by oral, rectal, vaginal, topical and inhalation routes [Seite 170]
9.1.5 - 76 Neonatal drug administration [Seite 172]
9.1.6 - 77 Immunisation [Seite 174]
9.2 - Pain relief [Seite 176]
9.2.1 - 78 Regional analgesia [Seite 176]
9.2.2 - 79 Non-pharmacological methods of pain relief [Seite 178]
9.2.3 - 80 Transfusion of blood and blood products [Seite 180]
9.2.4 - 81 Anti-D: preventing rhesus isoimmunisation [Seite 182]
10 - Appendices [Seite 184]
11 - Key references and further reading [Seite 186]
12 - Glossary [Seite 196]
13 - Index [Seite 198]
14 - EULA [Seite 201]
