By Shirley R. Jones, Rosemary Jenkins(auth.)
The second one variation of this winning textual content is an important and obtainable consultant to criminal elements of midwifery for all midwife supervisors, midwives, and midwifery scholars. Midwives will locate this e-book presents them with the information and knowing they require to make experience of the felony ideas that have an effect on their day by day paintings and allay their anxieties, encouraging them to increase and advance their perform accurately and with self belief.
This re-creation comprises new and revised case reviews all through. It additionally comprises new sections on NHS responsibility, the Human Rights Act, the knowledge defense Act, reproductive applied sciences and disciplinary pathways.
· Relates felony matters to daily midwifery practice
· Written by way of an skilled midwife for midwives
· available, correct and up-to-dateContent:
Chapter 1 The felony Framework (pages 1–24):
Chapter 2 The Statutory occupation of Midwifery (pages 25–47):
Chapter three The Statutory legislation of Midwifery (pages 48–63):
Chapter four responsibility in the NHS (pages 64–84):
Chapter five Negligence in Midwifery perform (pages 85–112):
Chapter 6 Consent and Refusal (pages 113–130):
Chapter 7 Use and Abuse of knowledge (pages 131–143):
Chapter eight elements of legislations relating to replica and baby security (pages 144–160):
Chapter nine features of Employment legislations (pages 161–171):
Chapter 10 software to Midwifery perform (pages 172–196):
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They were advised by obstetricians and, not surprisingly, their reports supported the investment in technology, even though they acknowledged that maternity care needed to become more `human' and cater for women's social and emotional needs. Universal hospital birth was supported. More and more women found it difficult to have a home birth and many of the smaller maternity units were closed as large, hospital-based, consultant-led units were opened. A change in policy A pressure group of midwives with spirit was formed, the Association of Radical Midwives.
This, strictly speaking, is suspension from duty but the term is rarely used in this situation because of the professional connotation. There could be times, however, when a midwife is thought to have an illness that is putting mothers and babies at risk but refuses to go off duty, perhaps worried about her sickness record, perhaps not willing to accept that she has a problem. There could be times when it is thought that someone is a carrier for an infection or where there are concerns related to mental health or suspected substance abuse, including alcohol.
Such a situation could involve a neighbour seeking help if she has an antepartum haemorrhage or a precipitate labour at home, where the midwife lives outside her LSA boundary. Such activity could also occur when on holiday or out shopping. In any such situation the midwife should contact a Supervisor of Midwives (see Chapter 3) in the Trust that covers the place in question, to complete the form to give notification that she has practised in that LSA. The original purpose of this procedure related to the fact that midwives were all independent and, without such a system, LSAs could not possibly know who was practising.