Best Practices in Midwifery
Best Practices in Midwifery
Editor/Author
Anderson, Barbara A. and Stone, Susan
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Single-User Purchase Price:
$69.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$103.50
ISBN: 978-0-82-610885-2
Category: Health & Medicine - Nursing
Image Count:
10
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Holly Powell Kennedy
- Preface
- SECTION I. EVIDENCE-BASED MATERNITY CARE: THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
- 1. Evaluating and Using the Evidence Billie Anne Gebb, Zach G. Young, and Barbara A. Anderson
- 2. The Evidence for Providing the Midwifery Workforce Barbara A. Anderson and Rebeca Barroso
- SECTION II. EVIDENCE-BASED BEST PRACTICES IN THE CARE OF THE CHILDBEARING WOMAN
- 3. Centering Pregnancy: An Evidence-Based Model of Prenatal Care Deborah Brandt Karsnitz and Margaret Holcomb
- 4. Therapeutic Presence and Continuous Labor Support: Hallmarks of Nurse-Midwifery Robin G. Jordan
- 5. Home Birth: Evidence and Controversy Suzan Ulrich and Tonya B. Nicholson
- 6. The Birth Center: Innovation in Evidence-Based Midwifery Care Eunice K. M. Ernst and Susan E. Stone
- 7. Evidence-Based Practices to Promote, Support, and Protect Breastfeeding Janet L. Engstrom, Paula P. Meier, and Karen DeCocker-Geist
- 8. Mental Health During Childbearing: The Evidence for the Midwifery Model of Care Deborah Brandt Karsnitz and Nora Webster
- SECTION III. THE INTRAPARTAL PERIOD: THE CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE AND PRACTICE
- 9. Management of Prelabor Rupture of the Membranes at Term: Using the Evidence Amy Marowitz
- 10. Tethering in Labor: The Effect of Current Practices on the Normalcy of Labor Susan Yount and Meghan Garland
- 11. Untethering in Labor: Using the Evidence for Best Practice Susan Yount and Meghan Garland
- 12. The Limits of Choice: Elective Induction and Cesarean Birth on Maternal Request Kerri D. Schuiling and Joan K. Slager
- 13. Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: Emotion and Reason Mayri Sagady Leslie
- 14. The Second Stage of Labor: Using the Evidence to Protect Normal Birth Kathryn Osborne
- 15. Postpartum Hemorrhage: Best Practices in Management Tia Andrighetti