Full Description
Decision-making pervades all aspects of midwifery practice across the world. Midwifery is informed by a number of decision-making theories, but it is sometimes difficult to marry these theories with practice.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of decision-making for midwives irrespective of where in the world they practice or in which model of care. The first part critically reviews decision-making theories, including the Enhancing Decision-making Assessment in Midwifery (EDAM) tool, and their relevance to midwifery. It explores the links between midwifery governance, including professional regulation and the law, risk and safety and decision-making as well as how critical thinking and reflection are essential elements of decision-making. It then goes on to present a number of diverse case studies, demonstrating how they interrelate to and impact upon optimal midwifery decision-making. Each chapter presents examples that show how the theory translates into practice and includes activities to reinforce learning points.
Bringing together a diverse range of contributors, this volume will be essential reading for midwifery students, practising midwives and midwifery academics.
Contents
1. Midwifery and Decision-Making Theories 2. Midwifery Regulation: global perspective 3. Legal Issues in Midwifery Care 4. Doing good: Ethics of decision-making in midwifery care 5. Risk within maternity and how this impacts on midwives' decision-making 6. Midwifery Abdication 7. Critical thinking 8. The use of reflection in midwifery practice to inform clinical decision-making. 9. Decision-making in perinatal mental health: what are the challenges? 10. Stress urinary incontinence in pregnancy and midwives decision-making 11. Enhanced decision-making in midwifery - care for pregnant and parenting adolescents 12. Deciding to transfer. Tools to navigate the crossroads of expectations, values, and models of care, when making transfer decisions at a midwifery birth center 13. Decision-making around pain and its management during labour and birth 14. Midwives' decision-making for fetal heart monitoring 15. Third Stage of Labour and Optimal Cord Clamping: Implications for midwives decision-making 15. Choices after traumatic birth 17. Stillbirth and midwives decision making: what are the challenges? 18. Midwifery decision-making: Feeling safe to support women's choice in the maternity care environment 19. Woman centred-care and shared decision-making in midwifery care 20. Collaborative Decision-Making from a Woman's Perspective 21. The Doula, Midwife partnership. Friend or Foe - how to work collaboratively 22. Collaborative decision-making between midwives and doctors 23. Do personality traits impact upon Midwives decision-making and practice? 24. Proactive behaviour in midwifery education and practice: a pre-request for shared decision-making 25. Developing the decision-making skills of Student Midwives in an Undergraduate Midwifery Programme in New Zealand.