Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Antenatal Midwifery Skills

Abdominal examination
Amniotic fluid index
Anaemia
Anatomy
Antenatal appointments
Antenatal screening
Bishops score for induction
Blood pressure taking
Blood values
Booking advice and health promotion
British sign language
Calculating Estimated delivery sates (EDD)
Cholestasis
CMACE Top Ten recommendations
CTG interpretation
Customised growth charts
Diabetes
Drug administration
Emergencies
Female circumcision (FGM)
Functions of the placenta
Methods of Induction
Minor disorders
Substance misuse
Support groups
Useful websites
Venepuncture
Vulnerable groups of women
General abbreviations

All you need to know on:

• Giving advice at a booking interview
• Managing a woman with pre-eclampsia, cholestasis or diabetes
• Performing venipuncture
• Antenatal screening tests
• Anatomy
• And much more...

Alison Edwards lectures at BCU and has worked in Nursing and Midwifery since 1985, having trained as a Registered nurse first. She worked in Gynaecology prior to commencing Midwifery training and remained in full-time practice until 2004, when she transfered to lecturing. Alison has worked in antenatal and postnatal ward areas, she set up and run a fetal medicine / pregnancy day assessment unit, and regularly coordinated delivery suites in a variety of units in the Midlands.

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