Midwifery Preparation for Practice 2 book set

Book 1:

SECTION 1: CONTEXT
1. The Australian and New Zealand context
2. Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services
3. Human rights in childbirth
4. Fear and risk
5. Sustainability and environmental health care
6. Midwifery as primary health
7. Birth place and birth space
8. Ways of looking at evidence and measurement

SECTION 2: THE WOMAN
9. Social and environmental determinants of women's health
10. Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
11. Locating M?ori as Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the Midwifery Partnership
12. Options for women around fertility and reproduction

SECTION 3: THE MIDWIFE
13. Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
14. Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
15. Ethical Frameworks for practice
16. Supporting midwives, supporting each other

SECTION 4: PRACTICING PARTNERSHIP
17. Midwifery partnership
18. Working in collaboration
19. Promoting physiological birth

Book 2:

SECTION 1: AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE
20. Overview of reproductive physiology
21. Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation
22. Screening and assessment
23. Working with women in pregnancy
24. Applied physiology for labour and birth
25. Supporting women in labour and birth
26. Working with pain in labour
27. Using water for labour and birth
28. Perineal care and repair
29. Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period
30. Supporting women becoming mothers
31. Supporting the newborn
32. Supporting the breastfeeding mother
33. Pharmacology and prescribing
34. Contraception
35. Women's psycho-social health and wellbeing

SECTION 2: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
36. Variations in normal
37. Challenges in pregnancy
38. Disturbances in the rhythm of labour
39. Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth
40. Life-threatening emergencies
41. Complications in the post-natal period for the mother
42. The compromised neonate
43. Grief and loss during childbearing -- the crying times