Nursing & Health Survival Guide: Labour Midwifery Skills

Anatomy
Apgar scores
Birth environment – promoting normality
Caesarean Section (LSCS)
Catheterisation
Cord bloods
CTG interpretation
Diabetic women in labour
Emergencies
Emergency birth
Epidurals
Episiotomy
Examination of the placenta
Fetal blood sampling
Home birth preparation
Initial baby check
Instrumental birth
Mechanism of normal labour (LOA)
Monitoring maternal and fetal well-being in labour
Obesity and labour
Pain relief
Perineal repair
Positions for labour and birth
Resuscitation equipment
Signs of transition
Stages and phases of labour
Third stage management
Vaginal assessments
Vaginal birth after caesarean (trial of scar)
Waterbirth
Abbreviations
References

All you need to know on

• Providing care for low-risk women in labour
• Performing vaginal examinations
• Preparing for birth
• Anatomy related to labour
• And much more...

Alison Edwards lectures at BCUand 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 transferring into lecturing. She has worked in antenatal and postnatal ward areas, 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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