Contexts of Midwifery Practice
Sam Chenery-Morris author Helen Muscat author Heather Passmore author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
Published:1st Jun '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

In order to become skilled and competent practitioners, student midwives need to understand the complex individual, family and societal issues they will encounter. By introducing the contemporary context of midwifery practice, this book helps students to understand the problems many women face in society.
The book covers topics including violence, mental and sexual health, the rising obesity epidemic and increases in numbers of women from non-UK countries. The authors emphasise the fact that students need to be aware of their public health responsibilities and discuss various health promotion strategies.
5 copies of this book are+ on the shelves of Sheffield Hallam Library.This is a very useful and accessible text especially for the year 2 student midwife when learning about complex health and psychosocial factors relating to the mother and her family. Each chapter is related directly to the NMC Standards for Pre-registration midwifery education, and is complemented by a series of activities with the potential to challenge the reader to reflect on their experiences from practice. Thus promoting strong theory practice links to support evidence base practice. -- Celia Yeardley * drupal *
A well written text that will provide the student with a sound knowledge base on which to build her/his career in midwifery. -- Mrs Nan Morse * drupal *
This book considers wider elements of midwifery practice giving readers opportunity to apply contents to individual clients. Various models of care are used to place issues in context of care delivery. A positive for the book is that at the outset of each chapter application to the current NMC Standards for pre-registration midwifery education is detailed. -- Nicky Hadlett * drupal *
Added to reading list -- Rebecca Lawes * drupal *
ISBN: 9781446295373
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 380g
208 pages