Publisher's Synopsis
The Student's Guide to Becoming a Midwife is essential reading for all student midwives.
Now updated to include the latest 2012 NMC Midwifery Rules and Standards and a brand new chapter on the midwife and public health, this comprehensive resource provides a wide range of need-to-know information for student midwives, including:
- Effective communication and documentation
- Confidentiality
- Interdisciplinary working
- The fundamentals of antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care
- Assessment and examination of the new-born baby
- Medicines
- Public health
- Clinical decision-making
- Evidence-based practice
With case studies, words of wisdom from current midwives and a range of activities and self-test questions throughout - making it easy to learn and understand key concepts - The Student's Guide to Becoming a Midwife is the ideal companion for students throughout their course.
