Midwifery Skills at a Glance (At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare))

Being an effective midwife requires a range of knowledge and skills, all of which are essential to provide competent and safe care to childbearing women and their infants. Midwifery Skills at a Glance offers an invaluable, straightforward guide for students and practitioners – offering readable, easily digestible information, supported with illustrations throughout to enhance application to practice. Clear and concise throughout, Midwifery Skills at a Glance covers a wide range of skills – exploring issues such as infection control, personal hygiene care, and safeguarding; assessment, examination and screening skills; how to care for the woman and neonate with complex needs; drug administration and pain relief. A comprehensive, highly visual guide to the skills essential for safe, effective, and compassionate midwifery practice Written by experts in their field Briefly describes each skill and provides clear illustrations — making it an ideal companion in clinical practice Offers instruction on the safe use of a wide range of essential skills required to deliver safe, evidence-based maternity care Includes service user viewpoints and key points to help consolidate learning and reflect on the experience of receiving care Written with the student midwife in mind, Midwifery Skills at a Glance is equally invaluable for all others providing care, including Maternity Support Workers, mentors, registered midwives and medical students. Midwifery Skills at a Glance Contents Contributors Foreword Preface Part 1 The basics of care Infection control 1 Infection prevention and control 2 Hand hygiene 3 Infectious diseases in pregnancy 4 Modes of transmission 5 Asepsis and sepsis Health and safety at work 6 Moving and handling 7 The control of substances hazardous to health 8 Safety in the working environment 9 Sharps injuries 10 Working safely in the community Personal hygiene care 11 Personal hygiene care for women 12 Perineal and vulval hygiene; use of bedpans and commodes 13 Pressure area care Quality and patient safety in maternity care 14 Risk management, liability and avoidable harm 15 Types of incident, incident reporting, record keeping and duty of candour 16 Audit and quality assurance in maternity care Safeguarding 17 Safeguarding vulnerable women 18 Safeguarding of children: key issues 19 Female genital mutilation Part 2 Assessment, examination, screening and care of the woman and baby Assessment of the woman 20 ‘Booking’: the initial consultation with the midwife 21 The antenatal appointment: physical and psychological assessment of the woman in pregnancy 22 Abdominal examination in pregnancy 23 Physical and emotional assessment after birth Care of the woman in labour 24 Assessing the woman in labour 25 Abdominal examination in labour 26 Vaginal examinations in labour 27 Positions in labour and birth 28 Supporting and caring for women in labour 29 Supporting and caring for the partner 30 Care of the perineum in labour including episiotomy and suturing 31 Examination of the placenta and membranes 32 Urinary catheterisation The fetus in pregnancy and labour 33 Assessing fetal wellbeing in pregnancy and labour 34 Monitoring the fetal heart in pregnancy and labour Assessment and examination of the neonate 35 The Apgar score 36 The midwife’s examination of the baby at birth including identification of the neonate 37 Appearance and characteristics of the well term neonate 38 Overall daily assessment of the term neonate including vital signs and bladder and bowel function 39 Newborn and infant physical examination 40 The term, preterm and growth-restricted baby Caring for the newborn 41 Providing daily hygiene for the neonate including changing a nappy 42 Bathing the newborn 43 Breastfeeding 44 Formula feeding 45 Other feeding methods 46 Neonatal blood screening (‘heel prick’) Blood sampling and cannulation 47 Maternal venepuncture, including glucose tolerance testing 48 Cord blood and neonatal capillary blood sampling 49 Venous cannulation of the woman Taking and testing other body samples 50 Urinalysis 51 Specimen collection – stool specimen 52 Taking a wound swab 53 Use of a vaginal speculum and taking a vaginal swab Part 3 The woman or neonate with different needs Induction/stimulation of labour 54 Membrane sweep 55 Insertion of vaginal prostaglandin E2 56 Artificial rupture of membranes Care skills for the woman with complex needs 57 Recognising the deteriorating woman 58 CVP, Spo2 and ECGs 59 Fluid balance monitoring 60 Peak flow measurement in the woman 61 MEOWS, AVPU, GCS and SBAR 62 Care of the deceased Care skills for the baby with complex needs 63 Recognising deterioration in the neonate 64 Neonatal jaundice 65 Hypoglycaemia 66 Hypothermia Wound care 67 Wound assessment 68 Wound dressings and drains 69 Wound closures Prevention of venous thromboembolism 70 Assessment of venous thromboembolism risk and prevention of deep vein thrombosis in childbirth 71 Application and use of compression stockings Part 4 Drug administration in midwifery Routes of administration 72 Drug administration, handling and storage 73 Administration by injection to the woman 74 Intravenous administration of drugs 75 Medicine administration by oral, rectal, vaginal, topical and inhalation routes 76 Neonatal drug administration 77 Immunisation Pain relief 78 Regional analgesia 79 Non-pharmacological methods of pain relief 80 Transfusion of blood and blood products 81 Anti-D: preventing rhesus isoimmunisation Appendices Key references and further reading Glossary Index EULA Being an effective midwife requires a range of knowledge and skills, all of which are essential to provide competent and safe care to childbearing women and their infants. __Midwifery Skills at a Glance__ offers an invaluable, straightforward guide for students and practitioners – offering readable, easily digestible information, supported with illustrations throughout to enhance application to practice. Clear and concise throughout, __Midwifery Skills at a Glance__ covers a wide range of skills – exploring issues such as infection control, personal hygiene care, and safeguarding; assessment, examination and screening skills; how to care for the woman and neonate with complex needs; drug administration and pain relief. * A comprehensive, highly visual guide to the skills essential for safe, effective, and compassionate midwifery practice * Written by experts in their field * Briefly describes each skill and provides clear illustrations — making it an ideal companion in clinical practice * Offers instruction on the safe use of a wide range of essential skills required to deliver safe, evidence-based maternity care * Includes service user viewpoints and key points to help consolidate learning and reflect on the experience of receiving care