Skills for Midwifery Pract ANZ

SECTION 1: GENERAL SKILLS
Part 1: Principles of infection control
Chapter 1: Standard Precautions and hand hygiene
Chapter 2: Asepsis
Chapter 3: Principles of hygiene needs
Part 2: Vital signs
Chapter 4: Temperature
Chapter 5: Pulse
Chapter 5: Respiration
Chapter 7: Blood pressure
Chapter 8: Neurological assessment
Part 3: Screening and Testing
Chapter 9: Screening tests
Chapter 10: Venepuncture
Chapter 11: Cannulation
Chapter 12: Obtaining Swabs
Chapter 13: Use of Speculum
Chapter 14: Capillary sampling
Part 4: Principles of elimination management
Chapter 15: Micturition and catherisations
Chapter 16: Urine samples
Chapter 17: Defaecation and stool specimens
Part 5: Principles of drug administration
Chapter 18: Medication administration: Legal aspects, pharmacology and anaphylaxis
Chapter 19: Oral
Chapter 20: Per vaginum
Chapter 21: Per rectum
Chapter 22: By infection
Chapter 23: Intravenous medications and intravenous therapy
Chapter 24: Blood and iron transfusion
Chapter 25: Inhalation
Part 6: Skills for supporting antenatal wellbeing
Chapter 26: Building a therapeutic relationship
Chapter 27: Abdominal examination during pregnancy
Chapter 28: Interprofessional working to optimise women&aposs antenatal care
Part 7: Skills for preparing women for labour, birth and early parenting
Chapter 29: Facilitating learning through the childbearing episode

SECTION 2: WORKING WITH THE WOMAN AND BABY DURING LABOUR AND BIRTH
Part 1: Monitoring well-being in early labour
Chapter 30: Principles of intrapartum skills: first-stage issues
Chapter 31: Abdominal Examination During Labour
Chapter 32: Membrane Sweep
Chapter 33: Fetal Heart Monitoring
Chapter 34: Non-pharmacological pain relief
Chapter 35: Management of labour and birth in water
Chapter 36: Birth at Home
Part 2: Monitoring well-being in established labour
Chapter 37: Amniotomy, Fetal Scalp Electrode, Fetal Blood Sampling
Chapter 38: Pain Relief - inhalational and regional analgesia: Entonox and Epidural
Part 3: Monitoring wellbeing during the expulsive phase
Chapter 39: Intrapartum skills in the second stage
Chapter 40: Management of the perineum
Chapter 41: Assisted and operative birth
Chapter 42: Maternal and infant resuscitation
Part 4: Monitoring wellbeing during and after the third stage
Chapter 43: Principles of intrapartum skills: third stage
Chapter 44: Management of the third stage blood loss (Management of PPH)
Chapter 45: Examination of the genital tract following delivery

SECTION 3: WORKING WITH THE WOMAN AND BABY AFTER BIRTH
Part 1: Skills for optimising the woman&aposs and baby&aposs physiological wellbeing
Chapter 46: Promoting physiological stability in the mother-baby dyad in the first 24 hours after birth
Chapter 47" Caring for a woman after a caesarean section
Chapter 48: Caring for the baby&aposs physiological wellbeing after birth
Part 2: Skills for supporting the woman to feed her baby
Chapter 49: Supporting the woman to initiate breastfeeding
Chapter 50: Supporting the woman who chooses to formula feed

SECTION 4: GENERAL SKILLS
Part 1: Self care
Chapter 51: Manual handling
Chapter 52: Occupational Health and Safety