The Student's Guide to Becoming a Midwife

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<p><i>The Students Guide to Becoming a Midwife</i> is essential reading for all student midwives.</p><p>Now updated to include the latest 2012 NMC Midwifery Rules and Standards and a brand new chapter on the midwife and public health, this comprehensive resource provides a wide range of need-to-know information for student midwives, including:</p><ul><li>Effective communication and documentation</li><li>Confidentiality</li><li>Interdisciplinary working</li><li>The fundamentals of antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care</li><li>Assessment and examination of the new-born baby</li><li>Medicines</li><li>Public health</li><li>Clinical decision-making</li><li>Evidence-based practice</li></ul><p>With case studies, words of wisdom from current midwives and a range of activities and self-test questions throughout making it easy to learn and understand key concepts <i>The Students Guide to Becoming a Midwife</i> is the ideal companion for students throughout their course.</p>

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<p><b><i>About the editors</i></b></p><p><b>Professor Ian Peate</b> is Visiting Professor, University of West London, and Editor-in-Chief of the<i>British Journal of Nursing</i>.<p><b>Cathy Hamilton</b> is Senior Lecturer of Midwifery at the University of Hertfordshire and Supervisor of Midwives at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust.

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