Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwives - Softcover

Nell Tharpe; Cindy Farley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763750131 ISBN 13: 9780763750138

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery and Women s Health is an up-to-date, quick reference guide to midwifery and the care of women. This text presents a compilation of current practices that include evidence-based, traditional, and empiric care from a wide variety of sources. Each Guideline moves through problem identification and treatment using a standardized format for day-to-day clinical practice with diverse populations. Designed as a working practice tool that will reflect your individual practice, the Guidelines may be customized further with dated and initialed written additions, deletions, or use of a highlighter

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About the Author

Nell Tharpe, MS, CNM, CRNFA, FASCCP-Midwife Publications - The Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nell Tharpe has been a community midwife for 17 years in Coastal Maine. Ms. Tharpe's love of midwifery grew out of a desire to provide continuity of care to women in her own community. As she practiced in this rural setting she realized how isolated midwifery practice could be, and how limited ready resources were when trying to plan continued care for the women who came to her. "I am committed to fostering midwifery for midwives of all backgrounds. We can all learn from each other. Let's join hands to make midwifery strong and to ensure best care for women, mothers, and babies wherever we practice. Blessings on the Work!" Cindy Farley, CNM, PhD, FACNM-Faculty, Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University, Clinical Midwife, Greater Cincinnati Nurse-Midwives Cindy L. Farley received her Bachelor's of Science in Nursing from The Ohio State University in 1978, her Master's in Nursing in the nurse-midwifery program from Emory University in 1981, and her Doctor of Philosophy from The Ohio State University in 1999. She has been active in clinical practice for over 27 years. She is currently working part-time in a large full scope midwifery practice at the University Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to this, she was director and clinical midwife of Greene Midwifery Care, a full-scope nurse-midwifery practice, providing labor and birth care to women and their families at Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia, Ohio. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings, including a free standing birth center and hospitals in rural, urban and suburban areas. Dr. Farley has been involved in midwifery education for over 18 years. She currently teaches the critical inquiry course series and an introduction to teaching methods at The Midwifery Institute of Philadelphia University. Prior to this, she taught the antepartum course series for the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing for 8 years. She incorporates service-learning class research projects into her courses to combine academic objectives with real world work products. Her class 10 students contributed to the review and updating of the evidence base in selected clinical practice guidelines in this edition of the book and in doing so, met course objectives, polished their critical thinking and writing skills and have authentic experience in publication and developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763750131
• ISBN 13: 9780763750138
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 471