Midwifery (3^rd Ed.) Preparation for Practice

Midwifery: Preparation for Practice is both highly respected and upheld as the definitive midwifery text for the Australian and New Zealand market. Written and edited by a selection of internationally recognised leaders in the midwifery, this book shares the wealth of knowledge and expertise in midwifery practice, education, research and regulation.

This text aims to develop and support competent, confident midwives by providing up-to-date evidence and practice based resources for students and midwives who work in partnership with women in woman-centred models of midwifery care.

1. Australian and New Zealand health care and maternity systems
2. The Australian and New Zealand context
3. Models of health
4. Midwifery and maternity in a global context
5. Risk, fear and safety
6. Ways of looking at evidence and measurement
7. The place of birth
8. Challenges to women's health
9. Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
10. Midwives and Maori women: Advancing our relationships
11. Options for women around fertility and reproduction
12. Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
13. Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
14. Ethical frameworks for practice
15. Sustaining midwifery practice
16. Theoretical frameworks for midwifery practice
17. Working in partnership
18. Working in collaboration
19. Promoting physiological birth
20. The physiology of conception and pregnancy
21. Nutrition and physical activity foundation for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation
22. Screening and assessment
23. Working with women in pregnancy
24. Physiological changes during labour
25. Supporting women in labour and birth
26. Working with pain in labour
27. Using water for labour and birth
28. Perineal care and repair
29. Physiological changes during the postnatal period
30. Supporting women becoming mothers
31. Transitions to motherhood
32. Supporting the newborn infant
33. Supporting the breastfeeding mother
34. Completing the midwife-woman partnership
35. Pharmacology and prescribing
36. Contraception
37. Challenges in pregnancy
38. Disturbances in the rhythm of labour
39. Interventions in pregnancy labour and birth
40. Maternal life-threatening emergencies
41. Complications in the post-natal period for the mother
42. The compromised neonate
43. Grief and loss during childbearing

Primary: Bachelor of Midwifery and Postgraduate Midwifery

Secondary:Practising midwives - Continuing Professional Development (CPD)