The Student’s Guide to Becoming a Midwife is essential reading for all student midwives.

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:



Effective communication and documentation
Confidentiality
Interdisciplinary working
The fundamentals of antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care
Assessment and examination of the new-born baby
Medicines
Public health
Clinical decision-making
Evidence-based practice

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 – The Student’s Guide to Becoming a Midwife is the ideal companion for students throughout their course.