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

Linda Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781729297 | ISBN-13: 978-0781729291 | Publication Date: January 15, 2002 | Edition: Second

This practical handbook of prenatal and postpartum care is written for nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, graduate students, and practicing OB/GYN nurses. It includes coverage of history taking, physical exam, laboratory tests, health education, initial and return prenatal visits, postpartum period, and family planning. Focus is placed on physical and psychosocial well-being and health promotion. Special features include: Healthy Pregnancy Questions for differentiating between common discomforts and potential complications; Key Moments tables that summarize essential information for key gestational ages; and History Taking forms. Numerous appendices permit easy and quick reference. A must have reference for nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 443 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Second edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781729297
• ISBN-13: 978-0781729291
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,437 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 :-)