Essential Midwifery Practice

Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care summarises theimportant developments in postnatal care in relation to recentpolicy and guidance and relates the recommendations to midwiferypractice in a clear and easily understood manner. Withcontributions from experts in the field, this practical textprovides a resource for postnatal service provision in bothhospital and community, offering a framework to assist midwivesunderstand the background to care. With a focus on a woman and family centred philosophy, andcommunity engagement models of care, this text explores issuesincluding clinical care within the postnatal period, transitioninto parenthood, empowering parents, morbidity and postnatal care,the healthy newborn, and engaging vulnerable women andfamilies. Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care forms partof a series of books that succinctly address the needs ofpractising midwives on a number of contemporary issues. * Includes up to date information on recent policy, includingNICE guidelines * Written by respected experts in the field * Focused on women and family centered care * For both hospital and community midwives