Best Practices In Midwifery
Using the Evidence to Implement Change
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- €74.99
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- €74.99
Publisher Description
"This book provides a well-rounded examination of the issues we face in using evidence to inform our everyday clinical decisions The authors have gathered current evidence and created practice scenarios to help the reader visualize EBP in action."
-Holly Powell Kennedy
Nurse-midwives often find themselves in situations where current research-based treatment conflicts with established practices that may be ineffective or even harmful. This text provides a roadmap for nurse-midwives who strive to implement change through evidence-based practice by presenting the most current evidence-based research on the care of childbearing women. It is the only book about evidence-based practice for nurse-midwives that encompasses the most controversial areas of practice. The text incorporates the foundations of midwifery and the midwifery model of care throughout.
The book discusses the use of electronic databases in examining evidence and identifying best practices. It considers how the current workforce environment affects the practice of nurse-midwifery, and describes evidence-based practices in the care of childbearing women. Each chapter reviews current literature, describes contemporary practices and explores whether these practices are based on scientific evidence. Case studies enhance the examination of evidence and the identification of best practices.
Key Features:Focuses on scientific evidence as the framework for the practice of nurse-midwifery Incorporates the hallmarks of midwifery and the midwifery model of care Examines practices that are in conflict with scientific evidence Provides guidance for practicing nurse-midwives in implementing best practices based upon scientific evidence;
Dedication
Foreword:
Preface:
List of Contributors
Section I. Evidence-based Maternity Care: The External Environment
Chapter 1 Evaluating and Using the Evidence
Chapter 2 The Evidence for Providing the Nurse-Midwifery Workforce
Section II. Evidence-based Best Practices in the Care of the Childbearing Woman
Chapter 3 Centering Pregnancy: An Evidence-Based Model of Prenatal Care
Chapter 4 Therapeutic Presence and Continuous Labor Support: Hallmarks of Nurse-Midwifery
Chapter 5 Home Birth: Evidence and Controversy
Chapter 6 Birth Centers: The Midwifery Model of Care (TK)
Chapter 7 Evidence-Based Practices to Promote, Support and Protect Breastfeeding
Chapter 8 Mental Health during Childbearing: The Evidence for the Midwifery Model of Care
Section III. The Intrapartal Period: The Conflict of Evidence and Practice
Chapter 9 Management of Pre-Labor Rupture of Membranes at Term: Using the Evidence
Chapter 10 Tethering during Labor: The Effect of Current Practices on the Normalcy of Labor
Chapter 11 Un-tethering in Labor: Using the Evidence for Best Practice
Chapter 12 The Limits of Choice: Elective Induction and Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request
Chapter 13 Vaginal Birth after Cesarean: Emotion and Reason
Chapter 14 The Second Stage of Labor: Using the Evidence to Protect Normal Birth
Chapter 15 Postpartum Hemorrhage: Best Practices in Management
