The Students 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.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Effective Communication
• 2 Effective Documentation
• 3 Confidentiality
• 4 The Aims of Antenatal Care
• 5 Programmes of Care During Childbirth
• 6 Interprofessional Working: Seamless Working within Maternity Care
• 7 Intrapartum Care
• 8 Effective Emergency Care
• 9 Initial Assessment and Examination of the Newborn Baby
• 10 Effective Postnatal Care
• 11 Medication and the Midwife
• 12 The Midwife and Public Health
• 13 Regulating the Midwifery Profession
• 14 The Impact of Cultural Issues on the Practice of Midwifery
• 15 Legislation and the Midwife
• 16 Decision Making
• 17 Health, Safety and Environmental Issues
• 18 Evidence-Based Practice
• 19 Statutory Supervision of Midwives
• 20 Clinical Governance: A Framework for Improving Quality in Maternity Care
• Glossary