Myles Textbook for Midwives

Myles Textbook for Midwives
ISBN-10
0443072345
ISBN-13
9780443072345
Series
Myles Textbook for Midwives
Category
Medical / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health
Pages
1089
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Churchill Livingstone
Authors
Margaret A. Cooper, Diane Fraser

Description

The new edition of this market-leading textbook builds on the strengths of the previous edition. Completely updated and revised, it provides the most up-to-date perspectives and research on a complete range of the theoretical, practical, and background concepts with which modern midwives should be familiar. In addition, it offers numerous summary boxes and flowcharts and provides clear guidance on how to critically appraise valuable research.

  • Covers the full scope of theoretical and practical issues with which a newly qualified midwife must be familiar
  • Offers critical appraisal boxes related to recent research to help the reader understand how to analyse available research, in ways they are already required to think for assignment work.
  • Includes summary boxes and flowcharts to make the text more quickly and easily accessible to the reader
  • Over 150 new illustrations and 30 new colour photographs
    • Anatomy and physiology chapters have been placed at the beginning of the book.
    • Two new chapters - Exercises for Pregnancy, Labour and the Puerperium and Childbirth.
    • More emphasis has been placed on the puerperium, presenting the mother and midwife as partners in determining postnatal care.
    • Discusses the new midwifery regulatory body, examining changes in legislation from a practical perspective.
    • The chapter on antenatal investigations examines the dilemmas faced by potential parents and the challenges that adverse outcomes present to the midwife.
    • Includes a color plate section with over 40 full-color photographs.
    • Includes 160 new two-color line illustrations.
    • Offers critical appraisal boxes related to recent research.

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