Nurse-Midwifery Handbook: A Practical Guide to Prenatal and Postpartum Care [Spiral-bound]

Linda, Cnm Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0397553609 | ISBN-13: 978-0397553600 | Edition: 1st

This handbook is aimed at those who provide prenatal and postpartum care to low-risk women. Emphasizing hands-on care, the book includes coverage of history-taking, physical exams, laboratory tests, health education, how to conduct an initial and a return prenatal visit, and the postpartum period and family planning. Focus is placed on physical and psychosocial well-being and health promotion, and special features include "healthy pregnancy questions" for differentiating between common discomforts and potential complications. "Key moments" tables summarize essential information for key gestational ages and the book also includes history-taking forms.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 273 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1st edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0397553609
• ISBN-13: 978-0397553600
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,412,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginning practitioners, June 3, 2003

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This review is from: Nurse-Midwifery Handbook: A Practical Guide to Prenatal and Postpartum Care (Spiral-bound)

This book is full of pearls and essential facts to guide the thinking of the beginning clinician. I have found it invaluable. It is clear and easy to understand and remember. I hope the author publishes something similar for intrapartum care.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Experience matches authors writing, June 20, 2009

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Kelli A. Hernandez (Oregon City, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nurse-Midwifery Handbook: A Practical Guide to Prenatal and Postpartum Care (Spiral-bound)

Linda delivered five of my six children. The quiet humility and confidence she displayed during delivery, made childbirth, for me, an extremely positive and spiritually uplifting experience.

She speaks not from a place of simple observance, but an honest experience in which she has shared with her patients and THEIR experiences.

This is one remarkable lady and I always wondered when she'd write a book about Midwifery.

Linda has an incredible gift and I am one of the lucky beneficiaries of that gift.

This is a definite "must read", but especially wonderful for those of us who have experienced Linda's professionalism, intuition and knowledge of the woman in labor and after. Such a beautiful soul and I am forever grateful to have known her professional skills at all, as well as her personal touches that have reached into the landscape of my life over the years and inspired me to grow as a human being. My children are nearly grown now, but her contribution is never, EVER forgotten.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good daily resource, January 11, 2007

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Sharon Ann Smalls (Brooklyn, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nurse-Midwifery Handbook: A Practical Guide to Prenatal and Postpartum Care (Spiral-bound)

This is a good resource to keep near throughout the day. Not a pocket guide (too large to fit in a pocket), but a good desk guide. I used it as a supplement to Pocket Varneys and Sinclair's Midwives Handbook. This book also has good pt education tools and good bullet points to spark a tired midwife's memory :-)