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Aquatic Exercise for Pregnancy
A resource book for midwives and health & fitness professionals
Susan Baines, Lecturer Midwifery & Applied Healthcare Ethics at University of Salford
Susie Murphy, BSc (Hons), RGN, RM, Exercise Professional, Community Midwife, NHS Lanarkshire
ISBN: 9781905539420
June 2010 • M&K Publishing • 132 pp A4 format
Aimed at midwives and health and fitness professionals, this practical, illustrated resource book covers every aspect of one of the most beneficial forms of exercise for pregnant mothers. Aquanatal exercise combines the therapeutic properties of warm water with suitably chosen music, to create a unique method of exercising. Unlike dry land exercise, which tends to work specific parts of the body, aquanatal exercise gently works the whole body.
Written by two specialist coaches for the Register of Exercise Professionals (UK), who have developed the UK’s first level3 Pregnancy Aquatics, Nutrition and Health module at the University of Salford, this book is the culmination of over ten years’ passionate interest and work in the field of aquanatal exercise.
Contents include:
Water generally – aquanatal specifically The anatomy of movement and the main muscles • Pool safety – risk assessment and management • Getting the best out of your classes • Aquanatal choreography • Practical tips for more fun and interesting classes • Contraindicated aquanatal exercises • The pelvic floor and aquanatal exercise • Ethical considerations • Public health, physical activity and aquanatal exercise • aquanatal exercise and parent education Nutrition during pregnancy and for physical exercise • The law and aquanatal exercise • Voice care for the aquanatal exercise coach • Marketing within the NHS • Sample screening and risk assessment forms • Sample sessions plans and client information sheets
Price: £26.00
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Managing Intimacy and Emotions in Advanced Fertility Care:
The future of nursing and midwifery roles
Helen Allan, RN RNT BSc PGDE, PhD. Reader, Senior Research Fellow at Centre of Research in Nursing and Midwifery Education, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK
ISBN: 9781905539079 • June 2009 • M&K Publishing • 180 pages • illustrations
This book is intended for nurses and midwives who work in Assisted Reproduction clinics and those who either work in, or have an interest in women’s health. The number of IVF births is increasing steadily as a percentage of all births and therefore infertility may be said to be increasingly influential in women’s health nursing and midwifery. The sense of connectedness which women caring for women express and as the data in this book show, women patients feel that there is something special about being cared for by female nurses and midwives. The emotions raised in clinical practice for nurses and midwives from caring for women need attention and discussion and this book is intended to contribute to a greater awareness of emotions in clinical practice even in a busy NHS. Indeed, paying attention to emotions when you are busy may help you understand and deal with the business. This book is intended for practicing nurses and midwives and therefore each chapter ends with a reflection from the author on the implications of the data for practice and an opportunity for the reader to reflect on their practice too.
Contents include:
A theoretical overview of caring and emotions • The experience of infertility • The nature of caring and managing emotions in fertility nursing • Managing emotions and the body in fertility nursing: chaperoning brought up to date • Experiences of infertility: liminality and the role of the Assisted Reproduction clinics • Managing intimacy in fertility nursing • The nature of advanced fertility nursing roles: why do nurses undertake them?
Price: £21.00
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Inter-professional Approaches to Young Fathers
Edited by Dr Jane Reeves, BA Hons, CQSW, MPhil, PhD.,
Research Lead, Department of Family Care and Mental Health, School of Health and Social Care, University of Greenwich
ISBN: 9781905539291 • September 2008 • M&K Update • 248 pages • illustrations
With one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, young fatherhood, as a site of economic and personal adversity, has become a focus of concern in Britain during the late 1990’s. However, despite this policy interest there is surprisingly little British empirical evidence to review.
One of the aims of the book is to draw together contemporary research evidence, social theory and policy which may effect how practitioners, students and academics conceptualise and work with young fathers. Consequently, each chapter illustrates the points it makes using discrete evidence from that particular field. Moreover, in order to make this process more ‘user friendly’ each chapter provides a summary of this literature and evidence. Finally, in order to make the book come alive it draws on case studies, which are drawn, variously, from two studies conducted by the editor.
Contents include:
Contextualising the evidence: Young fathers, family and professional support • The legislative and policy context of young fathers and their children • ‘I’ve got to release it’: sexual health and young men • A father is born: the role of the midwife in involving young fathers in the birth and early parenting of their children • Safeguarding young fathers and their children • The role of fathers in their children’s lives • Recklessness, rescue and
Price: £27.00
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Pre-Teen and Teenage Pregnancy - A twenty-first century reality
Edited by June L Leishman PhD, MEd (Hons), Post Grad Dip Ed, Cert HE
Psychology, Cert HE Social Psychology RNT RCNT RMN.
Director of Operations in the School of Social and Health Sciences at the University of Abertay, Dundee.
James Moir PhD, MEd (Hons), BEd
Director of Academic Programmes in the School of Social and Health Sciences at the University of Abertay, Dundee.
ISBN: 9781905539116
September 2007 • M&K Update Ltd • 180 pages • illustrated
Childhood and teenage pregnancy continues to pose significant social and health concerns within the UK and beyond. It is an issue that has implications for individuals across a range of professions and disciplines.
This book is written for nurses, midwives, doctors, social workers and teachers, as well as students of sexual and reproductive health and welfare.
It highlights some of the issues faced by sexually active young people and those who work with them. It will also be useful to general readers with a broad interest in the area, or the topic of particular chapters, which are structured to allow readers to ‘dip into’ topics as necessary. However we would encourage readers to read the book as a whole for a broader understanding of the issues.
Contents include:
• The range and scope of early age sexual activity
• A child of our time
• Adolescent risk-taking in sexual behaviours
• Pharmacological contraceptive prescribing for young people
• Promoting sexual health in primary schools
• Leanne: A snapshot of teenage sexual experience
• Local initiatives: A sexual health doctor’s experience
• The future’s fine – or is it?
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Routine Blood Results Explained 2nd Edition
NEW Second Edition now includes pregnancy and paediatrics
Author Dr Andrew Blann PhD FRCPath
ISBN: 9781905539383
May 2007 • M&K Update Ltd • 168 pages • illustrated
The 2nd Edition has benefited from some structural changes, notably the merging of separate Chapters on calcium and the thyroid into a single section. New text, generally in response to comments from readers and delegates on M&K courses, includes more details on blood transfusion, and also a completely new Chapter with sections on pregnancy, paediatrics, and on immunology as applied to the inflammatory auto-immune connective tissue diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Contents
Introduction
Abbreviations
Part 1: Haematology
Part 2: Biochemistry
Part 3: Combined Haematology and Biochemistry Case Reports
Part 4: Appendices of normal ranges
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