Birth Emergency Skills Training: Manual for Out of Hospital Midwives (Power Points and E-book)

Power Point Presentations and E-books IMPORTANT - This version is a cd ROM with digital files in pdf and ms reader, to be read on your computer or other devices. Includes fourteen unique powerpoints to be used as teaching aids in the classrooom. Midwives attending childbirth in homes and birth centers seldom encounter emergencies, but when crisis occurs, lives hang in the balance! It is difficult to remain proficient in skills so seldom practiced, yet pregnant women rely on the expertise of the provider in an emergency. Birth Emergency Skills Training: Manual for Out-of-Hospital Midwives is the interface between the world of midwifery and the world of medicine. It carries the reader from the initial steps of intervention though definitive care, balancing a friendly tone and visual appeal with authoritative and clinically useful information. It is loaded with mnemonics and other memory aids, and is richly illustrated with the author's artful drawings and photography. " Bonnie Gruenberg has brought together her unique talents as an artist, an experienced Emergency Medical Technician, a Certified Nurse-Midwife and mother in a well organized, concise and creative approach to the identification, evaluation and management of care of the emergent complications of childbearing. Although the treatise is directed to midwives practicing in the out of hospital setting, it is a reference that will help all providers caring for childbearing women regardless of setting as well as all student midwives, nurses and physicians. It provides an excellent review for exams on this subject." Kitty Ernst, President American College of Nurse-Midwives Mary Breckinridge Chair of Midwifery, Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. " ... systematic and clear approach to critical thinking, assessment, diagnosis and intervention when emergencies arise. " Katherine Camacho Carr, PhD, ARNP, CNM, FACNM. Professor & Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies Seattle University, College of Nursing " This book is phenomenal. It offers a concise discussion of obstetrical problems that will serve both out of hospital and in hospital birth practitioners as a resource in problem solving and providing safe care in the event of an obstetrical problem or emergency. The ethical responsibility of the midwife in recognizing abnormal and responding to it is importantly illustrated. " Kathleen Nishida, RN, CNM, MSN, Tokyo, Japan Birth Emergency Skills Training is also presented as an online CME course for midwives, offered though Aviva Institute.