A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is an accessible,portable book offering student midwives everything they need tograsp the key elements of midwifery language, knowledge and skills.
The new edition of this useful aide–memoire is divided into twoparts. The first includes relevant terms, abbreviations anddefinitions. The second part is a quick A–Z reference guide tocommon conditions, procedures, emergency situations, and supportinginformation, enhanced by visual material to aid comprehension ofnormality and anomalies. The innovative action flow charts enablerapid access to information that logically guides the readerthrough procedures in potentially life–threatening situations, inboth home and hospital settings.
A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives is essential readingfor the new non–nurse student midwife, the experienced nurseentering the midwifery profession, and senior student midwives.