Best Practices in Midwifery: Using the Evidence to Implement Change - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826108857 ISBN 13: 9780826108852

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Nurse-midwives often find themselves in situations where current research-based treatment conflicts with established practices that may be ineffective or even harmful. This text provides a roadmap for nurse-midwives who strive to implement change through evidence-based practice by presenting the most current evidence-based research on the care of childbearing women. It is the only book about evidence-based practice for nurse-midwives that encompasses the most controversial areas of practice. The text incorporates the foundations of midwifery and the midwifery model of care throughout.

The book discusses the use of electronic databases in examining evidence and identifying best practices. It considers how the current workforce environment affects the practice of nurse-midwifery, and describes evidence-based practices in the care of childbearing women. Each chapter reviews current literature, describes contemporary practices and explores whether these practices are based on scientific evidence. Case studies enhance the examination of evidence and the identification of best practices.

Key Features:

• Focuses on scientific evidence as the framework for the practice of nurse-midwifery
• Incorporates the hallmarks of midwifery and the midwifery model of care
• Examines practices that are in conflict with scientific evidence
• Provides guidance for practising nurse-midwives in implementing best practices based upon scientific evidence

About this title

About the Author

Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is the Director of the post-master's Doctor of Nursing Practice program (DNP) at Frontier Nursing University, Hyden, Kentucky. She is co-editor of Caring for the Vulnerable: Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Research, and Practice (2008 & 2012) and was awarded the American College of Nurse Midwives Book of the Year Award for Reproductive Health: Women and Men's Shared Responsibility (2005). Dr. Anderson has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health and currently serves as a journal referee for Medical Anthropology Quarterly and Social Science and Medicine. She has served as chair of the Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Anderson led an urban initiative in California that won The Safe Motherhood Initiative-USA Model Program award. As a program consultant in Africa, Asia and Latin America, she has prepared nurses, midwives and physicians in public health and the midwifery model of care.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826108857
• ISBN 13: 9780826108852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Stone Susan, Anderson Barbara A.