Best Practices in Midwifery

Editor/Author Anderson, Barbara A. and Stone, Susan
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

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ISBN: 978-0-82-610885-2
Category: Health & Medicine - Nursing
Image Count: 10
Book Status: Available
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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.

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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