Best practices in midwifery : using the evidence to implement change / Barbara A. Anderson, Judith P. Rooks, Rebeca Barroso, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I: Advancing midwifery care. The Midwifery Workforce: Issues Globally and in the United States -- Advocating for Childbearing Women: Current Initiatives and Workforce Challenges -- Evaluating and Using Scientific Evidence: Foundation for Implementing Change -- Section II: Midwifery care: the evidence for optimal outcomes. Facilitating Access to Midwifery-Led Prenatal and Postpartum Care -- Nutrition and Epigenetics in Pregnancy -- Evidence-Based Midwifery Care for Obese Childbearing Women -- Weight Management Counseling With Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women -- Maternal Concerns and Knowledge About Vaccination During Pregnancy: Counseling Childbearing Women -- Women in Migration: Best Practices in Midwifery -- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes: The Challenge to Midwifery -- Circles of Change: CenteringPregnancy®, Health Disparities, and Vulnerable Women -- Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Maximizing Midwifery Care -- Mind?Body Practices: Integration in the Midwifery Model of Care -- The Freestanding Birth Center: Evidence for Change in the Delivery of Health Care to Childbearing Families -- Creating a Birth Center: Entrepreneurial Midwifery -- Home as the Place of Birth: The Evidence for Safety -- Section III: The intrapartal period: using the evidence. Therapeutic Presence and Continuous Labor Support: Hallmarks of Midwifery -- Untethering in Labor: Using the Evidence for Best Practice -- Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: Emotion and Reason -- The Limits of Choice: Elective Induction and Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request -- Evidence-Based Management of Prelabor Rupture of the Membranes at Term -- The Midwife as Catalyst: Promoting Institutional Change With Intrapartum Immersion Hydrotherapy -- Nitrous Oxide?s Place in Labor and Birth -- Management of the Third Stage of Labor: Implementing Best Practices -- Section IV: Collaborative practice: the evidence for best practices. The Role of Midwifery in Mobilizing Communities to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes -- The Evidence for Interprofessional Education in Midwifery -- Creating a Collaborative Working Environment -- Conclusion: Policy and Advocacy?Fostering Best Practices in a Dynamic Health Care Environment.

"This second edition of a groundbreaking book is substantially revised to deliver the foundation for an evidence-based model for best practices in midwifery, a model critical to raising the United States' current standing as the bottom-ranking country for maternity mortality among developed nations. With a focus on updated scientific evidence as the framework for midwifery practice, the book includes 21 completely new chapters that address bothcontinuing and new areas of practice, the impact of institutional and national policies, and the effects of diversity and globalization. Incorporating themidwifery model of care, the book provides strategies for change and guidance for implementing evidence-based best practices." -- Provided by publisher.

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