Oxford Handbook of Midwifery (Oxford Medical Publications)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 832 pages
• Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
• Edition: 1st Edition November 13, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0198566085
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0198566083
• Book Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 14.9 ounces

Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Midwifery is the first pocket-sized handbook to provide midwives with everything they need for successful practice. It contains concise, practical and expert guidance on all aspects of the midwife's role, from pre-conceptual advice to the final postnatal examination of the mother and baby. Giving a complete picture of the role of the midwife, the handbook's contents reflect the mother's journey through conception, pregnancy and birth. Helping you achieve the best possible results for your patients, the authors offer a wealth of recommendations, guidance and information from their years of experience. Whatever situation you are in, the Oxford Handbook of Midwifery will give you the information you need. The handbook covers the vast majority of scenarios you will ever encounter. The basics of midwifery are divided into five main sections, covering antenatal care; normal labour and birth; complicated labour and birth; infant feeding and postnatal care. The handbook also gives information rarely covered in standard midwifery texts, including sexual health, complementary therapies, common blood values, investigations, and midwifery emergencies. Key interventions are laid out as algorithms to aid quick assimilation of the crucial facts. So you can find the information you need without delay, the book is clearly laid out with one topic per page, and written in an easily readable note-based style. Blank pages for writing notes, observations and local protocols allow your handbook to be customised to meet your specific needs. All this is available at your fingertips, in a pocket-sized handbook with hard-wearing plastic covers. Written by practising midwives and checked by subject experts, the Oxford Handbook of Midwifery is a unique and invaluable companion to practising and student midwives, lecturers, and to all those who need to understand the special issues associated with midwifery practise.

About The Author
Maggie Evans has thirty years experience as a midwife in various care settings and more recently as a midwifery lecturer at Sheffield University for ten years. She is now pursuing a freelance career incorporating her interests of maternity care and complementary therapies. Susan Battersby is a Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of Sheffield. She is both a registered midwife and a registered nurse. She specialises in Infant-feeding and Sociology of Health. She has had a special interest in breastfeeding for many years and is at present reading for a PhD, looking at the conflicting paradigms within breastfeeding. She was the founder of the Sheffield Infant Feeding Initiative in 1989 and is still an active member of the Sheffield Breastfeeding Forum. She was the key researcher in the evaluation of four breastfeeding peer-support programmes, three of which were funded by the Department of Health. She has undertaken the La Leche League Peer Counsellor Programme Administrator Training and the BFI Breastfeeding Management Course.