Fundamentals of Pharmacology for Midwives

<p><i>Fundamentals of Pharmacology for Midwives</i> provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of the essentials of pharmacology associated with childbearing women, improving safety and care outcomes whilst ensuring the comfort of the mother. It is essential that midwifery students have a knowledge and an understanding of pharmacology, along with an ability to recognise the positive and opposing effects of medicines from conception to birth&mdash;including allergies and drug sensitivities, side effects and adverse reactions, contraindications and errors in prescribing, and more. <ul> <li>Written with the latest NMC Standards of Proficiency for Registered Midwives (NMC 2019) in mind</li> <li>Each chapter includes &lsquo;test your prior knowledge&rsquo; questions, learning outcomes, and skills in practice boxes that encourage the reader to apply the theory to everyday practice</li> <li>Includes companion website for the book at www.wiley.com/go/pharmacologyformidwives that contains multiple-choice questions and other self-test material designed to enhance learning</li></ul><p><i>Fundamentals of Pharmacology for Midwives </i>provides a useful reference for those studying to be midwives and support clinicians in those fields, and to help them become safe and accountable practitioners, while offering competent and confident women-centred care.