Midwifery

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time, before investigating new and emerging trends.

Birth doula and hypnobirthing coach Emma Armstrong, wants you to take time to connect to your brain, body and baby throughout your unique pregnancy journey.

This book is a comprehensive work that spans the gap between basic knowledge and clinical significance of the placenta.

This book deals with the management of labour, guiding the readers to recognize problems by keen monitoring, based on anatomical and physiological understanding of labour.

This book is the combination of the literature on maternal drug use and birth defects with a set of new data on most types of drugs.

This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for childbearing women.

HypnoBirthing has gained momentum around the globe as a positive and empowering method of childbirth.

"e;Given the increasing complexities of co-morbidities in women of childbearing age, this book provides a case study approach to several critical conditions which challenge all health care professionals working in this field.

"e;Jacki Pritchard has done an excellent job in writing her new book.

Heart disease has long been thought of as a mens issue, when it is actually the leading cause of death in both men and women.

Midwifery Essentials 2e is an indispensable everyday resource for midwifery students and registered midwives for use in study or practice.

This book surveys the normal obstetrics encountered in primary care and serves as a practical guide to the evaluation and management of common prenatal, peripartum and postpartum complications.

The NMC have produced standards of proficiency for pre registration midwifery education and those standards have been written in an academic language, for higher education institutions.

In this definitive new text, the major medicines, devices and vaccines used by women worldwide are brought together for the first time in a single volume.

Postpartum depression has become a more recognized mental illness over the past decade as a result of education and increased awareness.

The foundation needed for the understanding and hence the treatment of a disease is a knowledge of the natural morphology and physiology of the affected organ and the system to which it belongs.

It is only in recent years that there has been development in the awareness of the father's mental health.

This book provides clinicians and their staff with essential information on the vaccines that are recommended and not recommended for their patients, the diseases these vaccines prevent, and a broad range of potential vaccine safety issues that may be brought up by their patients.

Do nurses still care?

Examination of the Newborn is essential reading for students and practitioners involved in neonatal examinations.

'A must have for all aspiring and current student midwives and Newly Qualified Midwives.

Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present.

The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions.

"e;This book contains a collection of the most recent insights regarding maternal morbidity and mortality and optimization of the care processes during acute critical illness.

 This book provides an overview of Fetal Medicine practice focusing on various aspects of fetal health such as screening for fetal aneuploidies and imaging for fetal anomalies, their basic management and technological breakthroughs.

 This book provides an overview of Fetal Medicine practice focusing on various aspects of fetal health such as screening for fetal aneuploidies and imaging for fetal anomalies, their basic management and technological breakthroughs.

This book covers all the gynecological areas where nurses undertake a key role in managing and leading the care of women.

Gynecologists cannot fulfill the commitments of their profession without being psychosomatically oriented.

This accessible, evidence-based book explores how important it is for midwives to understand the psychological aspects of care, in order to create positive experiences for mothers and families.

This text addresses the need for a book specifically aimed at obstetric anesthesia and covers topics such as pulmonary, cardiac renal, hepatic, hematologic, neurologic, endocrine and other diseases.

This book shines a light on the way in which risk - in and beyond childbirth - is highly contextual, and the way in which risk-management strategies can be understood as socially and materially constructed.

Until recently interstitial cystitis was considered a urologic curiosity, a rare problem with relatively specific diagnostic criteria that many urologists would see only once or twice in a decade.

This book is the first to assess the science and techniques used to restore women's figures after pregnancy and breastfeeding, and to explore the anatomical changes in different parts of the body.

This textbook is the first authoritative, in-depth publication about global midwifery and the contribution of skilled professional midwives to the provision of high quality maternity care, reductions in maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity.

Supervising and Assessing Student Nurses and Midwives in Clinical Practice is a practical guide for healthcare practitioners responsible for the supervision and assessment of students.

The prevalence of hypertension is almost three times as high as that of diabetes mellitus type 2, with both conditions being major risk factors for stroke, ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and heart failure.

This book presents an ethnographic study on gestational surrogacy in India.

Combined oral contraceptives are the most convenient and accepted method of hormonal contraception.

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.

If you want to introduce Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) into your curriculum but are not sure how to go about it, this book will set you on the right track.

This book presents a patient centric, holistic view and management strategy for registered nurses, advanced practice nurses and midwives to care for the pregnant female, including considerations in pregnancy planning.

The book describes the current management of fecal incontinence from an advanced practice nursing perspective.

This book investigates the education and assessment of student midwives in clinical practice, paying particular attention to how their practice is graded.

I am very happy and honoured to have so many famous contrib- utors from around the world presenting their knowledge and experience in this book, including Dr.