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Postnatal Care

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Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care offers a clear and practical overview of postnatal care, aligning recent policies and guidelines with midwifery practice. It addresses clinical care during the postnatal period, supports the transition into parenthood, and emphasises empowering parents. The book also covers morbidity, healthy newborn care, and strategies for engaging vulnerable women and families, providing a comprehensive framework for midwives working in both hospital and community settings.
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This book is ideal for practising midwives seeking up-to-date information on postnatal care, particularly those working in hospital or community environments. It is also a valuable resource for healthcare professionals interested in family-centred and community-engaged approaches to postnatal support.

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Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care summarises the important developments in postnatal care in relation to recent policy and guidance and relates the recommendations to midwifery practice in a clear and easily understood manner.

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Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care summarises the important developments in postnatal care in relation to recent policy and guidance and relates the recommendations to midwifery practice in a clear and easily understood manner. With contributions from experts in the field, this practical text provides a resource for postnatal service provision in both hospital and community, offering a framework to assist midwives understand the background to care.

With a focus on a woman and family centred philosophy, and community engagement models of care, this text explores issues including clinical care within the postnatal period, transition into parenthood, empowering parents, morbidity and postnatal care, the healthy newborn, and engaging vulnerable women and families.

Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care forms part of a series of books that succinctly address the needs of practising midwives on a number of contemporary issues.

  • Includes up to date information on recent policy, including NICE guidelines
  • Written by respected experts in the field
  • Focused on women and family centred care
  • For both hospital and community midwives

Series: Essential Midwifery Practice

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781405170918

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 November 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Sheena Byrom
  • Edited by Grace Edwards
  • Edited by Debra Bick

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 175.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 499g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Sheena Byrom is a consultant midwife at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Central Lancashire.

Grace Edwards is a?consultant midwife at Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust.

Debra Bick is Professor of Evidence Based Midwifery Practice, the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London.

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