preparation for practice Pairman, Sally editor. Tracy, Sally K. editor. Dahlen, Hannah G. editor. Dixon, Lesley editor. text bibliography 2019 Fourth edition. monographic eng

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2 volumes (xxii, 1-361; x, 362-1059 pages) : illustrations (some color), charts ; 28 cm. 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. Volume Book 1. Contextual implications for midwifery practice -- I: Context -- The Australian and New Zealand context -- Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services -- Human rights in childbirth -- Fear and risk -- Midwifery as primary health -- Birth place and birth space -- Ways of looking at evidence and measurement -- II: The woman -- Social and environmental determinations of women's health -- Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women -- Midwives and Maori women: advancing our relationships -- Options for women around fertility and reproduction -- III: The midwife -- Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand -- Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand -- Supporting midwives, supporting each other -- IV: Practising partnership -- Midwifery partnership -- Working in collaboration -- Promoting physiological birth -- Volume Book 2. Midwifery practice -- I: Autonomous practice -- Overview of reproductive physiology -- Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation -- Screening and assessment -- Working with women in pregnancy -- Applied physiology for labour and birth -- Supporting women in labour and birth -- Working with pain in labour -- Using water for labour and birth -- Perineal care and repair -- Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period -- Supporting women becoming mothers -- Supporting the newborn -- Supporting the breastfeeding mother -- Pharmacology and prescribing -- Contraception -- II: Collaborative practice -- Women's psycho-social health and wellbeing -- Variations in normal -- Challenges in pregnancy -- Disturbances in the rhythm of labour -- Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth -- Life-threatening emergencies -- Complications in the post-natal period for the mother -- The compromised neonate -- Grief and loss during childbearing - the crying times. [edited by] Sally Pairman [and three others] Preceded by: Midwifery / Sally Pairman ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. c2010. Includes bibliographic references and index. Maternal-child nursing Midwifery Pregnancy physiology Australia New Zealand WQ160 M629 2019 9780729542678 9780729543149 9780729543156 TH-BaNU 190409 20230307150509.0