The Student's Guide to Becoming a Midwife

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.

“"Overall, The Student's Guide to Becoming a Midwifeis an excellent all-round book to accompany any midwifery student throughout their training. . . I would recommend it to students in direct entry and shortened programmes of study as well as any practitioners returning to practice or wishing to update their study skills." ( British Journal of Midwifery , 1 April 2014)”

“Overall, The Student’s Guide to Becoming a Midwifeis an excellent all-round book to accompany any midwifery student throughout their training. . . I would recommend it to students in direct entry and shortened programmes of study as well as any practitioners returning to practice or wishing to update their study skills.”  (British Journal of Midwifery, 1 April 2014)

About the editors

Professor Ian Peate is Visiting Professor, University of West London, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nursing.

Cathy Hamilton is Senior Lecturer of Midwifery at the University of Hertfordshire and Supervisor of Midwives at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust.

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 newborn 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.

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.

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