Advancing skills in midwifery practice /

Marshall, Jayne E.

Advancing skills in midwifery practice / Jayne E. Marshall, Maureen D. Raynor ; foreword by Paul Lewis. - Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2009. - xi, 191 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The midwife's professional responsibilities in developing competence in new skills Complementary therapies in midwifery : a focus on moxibustion for breech presentation Ultrasonography in midwifery practice Reducing unnecessary caesarean section by external cephalic version Peripheral intravenous cannulation Midwives undertaking ventouse births Forceps-assisted births Facilitating vaginal breech birth at term Perineal management and repair Haemodynamic assessment and monitoring in maternity care Physiological examination of the neonate Infant massage Postnatal physiological examination of the mother Working in new ways to advance midwifery skills in practice.

9780702030062 (alk. paper)

2009019269


Midwifery.
Midwifery--methods.

RG950 / .M37 2010

618.2

WQ 160 / M368a 2010