Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A pocket guide for student midwives	Stella McKay,Pamela Lee,Stella McKay-Moffat	This book is written with both degree and diploma student midwives in mind. It is split into two sections, each alphabetical. The first section contains some of the language of midwifery: terms, abb…	OL13487487W
Becoming a Midwife in the 21st Century	Ian Peate	The NMC have produced standards of proficiency for pre registration midwifery education and those standards have been written in an "academic" language, for higher education institutions. Each studen…	OL15179328W
Birth Matters	Ina May Gaskin	Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement tha…	OL15891190W
The green lady	Helena Joyce	A biography of a Scottish midwife, or Green Lady as they were called because their uniform was green. Told from a third person angle. Has a humorous and non judgemental flavour to it.	OL16343434W
Revisiting Waterbirth An Attitude To Care	Dianne Garland	xviii, 217 pages : 22 cm	OL17542053W
CMB questions and how to answer them	Vera Da Cruz	197 p. : 19 cm	OL19433177W
The midwife's tale	Samuel S. Thomas	It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the king and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebel's hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a diffe…	OL19960169W
Shadows of the workhouse	Jennifer Worth	In the follow up to her bestselling Call the Midwide, Jennifer Worth tells the true stories of the people she met. There's Peggy and Frank, who were separated in the workhouse when their parents died…	OL20006631W
Launching your career in nursing and midwifery	Annabel Smoker	"Essential guide for student nurses and midwives at any stage at their pre-registration education, but especially for those in their final year, preparing for the move into qualified employment or fu…	OL20022651W
Nursing and midwifery uncovered	Laurel Alexander	This series exposes the truth about what it's really like to work in different career areas. Each book contains unusual and thought-provoking facts about the profession as well as an overview of the …	OL21587023W
Midwife on call	Agnes Light	"Agnes Light trained as a nurse in the 1960s and went on to become a midwife - helping to bring new lives into the world for over thirty years. After fainting from shock at the first birth she attend…	OL24285994W
Study skills for nursing and midwifery students	Philip A Scullion,David A Guest	Covers key skills and knowledge needed such as study strategies, reflective practice, critical thinking, evidence-based research, exam techniques, literature searching, and how to succeed in assessme…	OL24853857W
An answering flame	C. Margo Mowbray	The Frontier Nursing Service nurse-midwives rode on horseback up Kentucky's rugged hollows to deliver babies, treat the sick and injured, winter or summer, night or day. They risked surprise encounte…	OL27681527W
Bringing Life to Aberdeen	Lesley G Dunbar,G G Youngson,Fiona J. Rennie,Alison T. McCall	How did Aberdeen revolutionise modern midwifery and mother and baby care? Whether you were born in - or gave birth in - Aberdeen or elsewhere, you will probably have benefitted from the pioneering w…	OL28350953W
Loss in pregnancy	Marie Mcdonald,MCDONALD	In the majority of cases, childbirth is a joyous experience shared by the midwife. Tragically, however, there are occasions when events result in the loss of the pregnancy, and the midwife's role of …	OL28940923W
Evidence-Based Care for Normal Labour and Birth	Denis Walsh	Walsh examined the evidence-based research surrounding labor and delivery and compared it to common practices. She generally finds the medical practices to be lacking in the context of a normal, heal…	OL8103077W
Mental Health in Pregnancy and Childbirth	Sally Ann Price	x, 247 pages	OL9363950W
A Book for Midwives	Susan Klin	519 pages : 25 cm	OL9430042W