Myles Textbook for Midwives

by Jayne E. Marshall (Editor), Maureen D. Raynor (Editor)

The sixteenth edition of this seminal textbook, Myles Textbook for Midwives, has been extensively revised and restructured to ensure that it reflects current midwifery practice, with an increased focus on topics that are fundamental to midwifery practice today. The book comes with Elsevier EVOLVE ancillaries - an online learning package which consists of 500 self-assessment questions and answers and a fully downloadable image bank.

796 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2014

Reviews

[Glory Birth Midwifery]

This book touches on the topics of the midwifery profession, providing an overview of the different areas in which a midwife must be trained. It covers prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care, and neonatal care. It also provides guidance on how to communicate effectively with patients and their families, manage medical records and paperwork, provide education to expectant parents and other medical providers, perform physical examinations of pregnant women, assess labor progress and signs of labor, manage complications that may occur during pregnancy or labor and delivery, attend to the newborn infant after birth, recognize early warning signs of problems in unborn babies or new mothers, teach breastfeeding techniques and provide emotional support to both mother and baby before, during and after childbirth. The book also discusses the legal and ethical issues a midwife must consider, including informed consent and confidentiality, professional liability insurance, and malpractice prevention. It also covers global midwifery standards, current research in midwifery care, and strategies for incorporating evidence-based practice into the daily work of a midwife.

[WALAA ALHAMEEDI]

Useful so much .. i read it for university purposes