Rotunda midwifery for nurses and midwives / by G.T. Wrench.

  • Guy T. Wrench
Date:
1908
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Credit: Rotunda midwifery for nurses and midwives / by G.T. Wrench. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (3) The adaptation or fitting of the baby to the bony canal (pelvic canal) through wliich it has to pass. This adaptation is known as the Mechanism of Labour. (4) The attention of the midwife to herself. This in- cludes an account of her instruments and other apparatus, her bag, her nursing dress, the need of cleanliness, anti- septics, and how to clean herself and her kit after she has attended a case. (5) The attention of the midwife to the mother and her surroundings. This includes an account of the way of insuring that a house is healthy, a room clean and well ventilated; a description of the general principles of healthy living (known under the term of hygiene) and the advice that should be given to a pregnant patient. (6) A full account of the conduction of normal labour. (7) The conduction of the normal lying-in period. (8) The abnormaUties of pregnancy, viewed mainly from the practical point as to what the midwife really must know, but extended to points that will interest her in midwifery and enable her to understand the doctor’s treatment. (9) The abnormalities of labour on the same principles with full accounts of the conduction of breech dehvery, the treatment of post-partum haemorrhage and other prac- tical matters, which a midwife must know thoroughly. (10) The abnormahties of the lying-in period. (11) The insanities of the reproductive period. (12) The baby, treated fully, for the more nurses know about babies the better. In this way we shall cover all the subjects needed for the Rotunda Certificate, or for the examinations of the Central Midwives Board, and I hope to enable you to get a grasp of the subject that will make you careful, cleanly and judicious nurses and midwives.
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