Advancing skills in midwifery practice / edited by Jayne E. Marshall, Maureen D. Raynor ; foreword by Paul Lewis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The midwife's professional responsibilities in developing competence in new skills -- Complementary therapies in midwifery : a focus on moxibustion for breech presentation -- Ultrasonography in midwifery practice -- Reducing unnecessary caesarean section by external cephalic version -- Peripheral intravenous cannulation -- Midwives undertaking ventouse births -- Forceps-assisted births -- Facilitating vaginal breech birth at term -- Perineal management and repair -- Haemodynamic assessment and monitoring in maternity care -- Physiological examination of the neonate -- Infant massage -- Postnatal physiological examination of the mother -- Working in new ways to advance midwifery skills in practice.