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Best Practices in Midwifery: Using the Evidence to Implement Change
First Edition an AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!
This second edition of a groundbreaking book is substantially revised to deliver the foundation for an evidence-based model for best practices inmidwifery Aia model critical to raising the United States Ao current standing as the bottom-ranking country for maternity mortality among developed nations.With a focus on updated scientific evidence as the framework for midwifery practice, the book includes 21 completely new chapters that address bothcontinuing and new areas of practice, the impact of institutional and national policies, and the effects of diversity and globalization. Incorporating themidwifery model of care, the book provides strategies for change and guidance for implementing evidence-based best practices.
The book examines midwifery efforts to improve the health of women and children in the U.S., for example, Strong Start, US MERA, Centering Pregnancy-AE, afocus on physiologic birth, and successful global endeavors. It encompasses a diverse nationwide authorship that includes leaders in midwifery, academicians, midwives representing diversity, hospital- and community-based practitioners, and policymakers. This coalition of authors from diversebackgrounds facilitates an engaging and robust discussion around best practices. Chapters open with a contemporary review of the literature, a comparisonof current (often scientifically unsubstantiated and ineffective) practices, evidence-based recommendations, and best practices for midwifery.
Key Features:
Acents Focuses on scientific evidence as the framework for midwifery practice Acents Addresses continuing and new, controversial areas of practice with strategies and guidelines for change Acents Includes 20 out of 27 completely new chapters Acents Authored by a diverse group of 44 prominent midwifery leaders Acents Examines practices that are in conflict with scientific evidence "
This second edition of a groundbreaking book is substantially revised to deliver the foundation for an evidence-based model for best practices inmidwifery Aia model critical to raising the United States Ao current standing as the bottom-ranking country for maternity mortality among developed nations.With a focus on updated scientific evidence as the framework for midwifery practice, the book includes 21 completely new chapters that address bothcontinuing and new areas of practice, the impact of institutional and national policies, and the effects of diversity and globalization. Incorporating themidwifery model of care, the book provides strategies for change and guidance for implementing evidence-based best practices.
The book examines midwifery efforts to improve the health of women and children in the U.S., for example, Strong Start, US MERA, Centering Pregnancy-AE, afocus on physiologic birth, and successful global endeavors. It encompasses a diverse nationwide authorship that includes leaders in midwifery, academicians, midwives representing diversity, hospital- and community-based practitioners, and policymakers. This coalition of authors from diversebackgrounds facilitates an engaging and robust discussion around best practices. Chapters open with a contemporary review of the literature, a comparisonof current (often scientifically unsubstantiated and ineffective) practices, evidence-based recommendations, and best practices for midwifery.
Key Features:
Acents Focuses on scientific evidence as the framework for midwifery practice Acents Addresses continuing and new, controversial areas of practice with strategies and guidelines for change Acents Includes 20 out of 27 completely new chapters Acents Authored by a diverse group of 44 prominent midwifery leaders Acents Examines practices that are in conflict with scientific evidence "
568 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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November 2, 2014
This was a recommended/required book for my last semester in midwifery school. At the time I was a tad resentful because it was pretty expensive for what it was - which is a rather thin volume that reviews the evidence on a handful of pertinent clinical issues and some general rah rah midwifery topics. So none of the information was new or earth shattering, and frankly I wanted more clinical issues and less rah rah midwives.
I do refer back to this fairly frequently though for the smattering of clinical issues - especially the chapter on PROM. And now that I've been in practice for almost 2 years the occasional rah rah midwifery chapter is a good reminder of why I do what I do.
I do refer back to this fairly frequently though for the smattering of clinical issues - especially the chapter on PROM. And now that I've been in practice for almost 2 years the occasional rah rah midwifery chapter is a good reminder of why I do what I do.
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