Empowering Decision-Making in Midwifery: A Global Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367027285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 294 str.

Elaine Jefford; Julie Jomeen

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of decision-making for midwives. Each chapter presents examples that show how the theory applies to practice and includes activities to reinforce learning points.

Spis treści

1. Midwifery and Decision-Making Theories  2. Midwifery Regulation: global perspective  3. Legal Issues in Midwifery Care  4. Doing good: Ethics of decision-making in midwifery care  5. Risk within maternity and how this impacts on midwives’ decision-making  6. Midwifery Abdication  7. Critical thinking  8. The use of reflection in midwifery practice to inform clinical decision-making.  9. Decision-making in perinatal mental health: what are the challenges?  10. Stress urinary incontinence in pregnancy and midwives decision-making  11. Enhanced decision-making in midwifery - care for pregnant and parenting adolescents  12. Deciding to transfer. Tools to navigate the crossroads of expectations, values, and models of care, when making transfer decisions at a midwifery birth center   13. Decision-making around pain and its management during labour and birth  14. Midwives’ decision-making for fetal heart monitoring  15. Third Stage of Labour and Optimal Cord Clamping: Implications for midwives decision-making  15. Choices after traumatic birth  17. Stillbirth and midwives decision making: what are the challenges?  18. Midwifery decision-making: Feeling safe to support women’s choice in the maternity care environment  19. Woman centred-care and shared decision-making in midwifery care  20. Collaborative Decision-Making from a Woman’s Perspective  21. The Doula, Midwife partnership. Friend or Foe – how to work collaboratively  22. Collaborative decision-making between midwives and doctors  23. Do personality traits impact upon Midwives decision-making and practice?  24. Proactive behaviour in midwifery education and practice: a pre-request for shared decision-making  25. Developing the decision-making skills of Student Midwives in an Undergraduate Midwifery Programme in New Zealand.