Part A: Partners SECTION 1: CONTEXTS 1. Australian and New Zealand Health and Maternity Services - Karen Guilliland New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM), Sally K Tracy and Carol Thorogood 2. Australian and New Zealand context - Jill White, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW 3. Understanding World Views for Midwifery - Karen Lane, Deakin University, VIC 4. Risk and Safety - Joan Skinner, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ 5. Ways of looking at evidence & measurement - Sally K Tracy 6. Place of birth - Maralyn Foureur, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ & Marion Hunter, Auckland University of Technology, NZ SECTION 2: THE WOMAN 7. Challenges to Women''s health - Caroline Homer, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW 8.
Making decisions about fertility - Sally K Tracy 9. Transitions - Jan Pincombe SECTION 3: THE MIDWIFE 10. Professional frameworks for midwifery practice in Australia & New Zealand - Sally Pairman and Roslyn Donnellan-Fernandez, Department of Health Services, South Australia, SA 11. Legal frameworks for practice in Australia & New Zealand - Helen Newnham, Edith Cowan University, WA and Jackie Pearse NZCOM 12. Ethical frameworks for midwifery practice - Lynley Anderson, Otago University, NZCOM and Bronwen Pelvin NZCOM 13. Life skills for midwifery practice - Bronwen Pelvin Part B: Midwifery Practice SECTION 4: PARTNERSHIP 14. Theoretical frameworks for midwifery practice - Sally Pairman, & Judith McAra - Couper, Auckland University of Technology, NZ 15. Working in partnership - Nicky Leap, University of Technology Sydney and SESIAHS, NSW & Sally Pairman 16.
Working in collaboration - Sally K Tracy and Suzanne Miller, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ 17. Promoting physiological birth - Nicky Leap SECTION 5: AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE 18. Physiology of conception & pregnancy - Sally Baddock, Otago Polytechnic, NZ 19. Nutrition for childbearing - Sandra Elias, Otago Polytechnic, NZ 20. Working with women in pregnancy - Celia Grigg, Christchurch Hospital, NZ 21. Physiology of labour & the postnatal period - Sally Baddock & Lesley Dixon, Burwood Primary Birth Unit, NZ 22. Supporting women in labour & birth - Juliet Thorpe, Independent Midwife & Jacqui Anderson, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, NZ 23. Working with pain in labour - Nicky Leap and Stephanie Vague, Independent Midwife 24.
Water for labour & birth - Robyn Maude, Massey University, NSW and Shea Caplice, SESIAHS, NSW 25. Maintaining the integrity of the Pelvic floor - Sue Hendy, Midwifery Consultant, NSW 26. Supporting women becoming mothers - Lesley Dixon 27. Supporting the newborn infant - Jackie Gunn, Auckland University of Technology, NZ 28. Supporting the Breastfeeding Mother - Ann Henderson Women & Children''s Hospital, Adelaide, SA & Marlene Scobbie, Birth Care Auckland, NZ 29. Pharmacology & Prescribing - Marion Hunter, Auckland University of Technology, NZ & Jackie Gunn, Auckland University of Technology, NZ 30. Completing the midwife/woman partnership - Rhondda Davies, Independent Midwife, NZ 31. Contraception - Helen Calabretto, University of South Australia, SA SECTION 6: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE 32.
Screening & assessment - Sally K Tracy 33. Complications in pregnancy - Christine Griffiths, Independent Midwife, NZ & Carol Thorogood 34. Complications in labour & birth - Carol Thorogood and Catherine Donaldson, Independent Midwifery Educator & Midwife 35. Interventions: the evidence - Sally K Tracy 36. Life threatening emergencies - Carol Thorogood & Sue Hendy 37. Complications with the postnatal period - Jenny Gamble, Griffith University, QLD & Debra Creedy, Griffith University, QLD 38. Complications of the newborn - Linda Jones, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, VIC & Annette Wright, Royal Hospital for Women Sydney, NSW 39. Grief & bereavement - Chris Stanbridge, NZCOM.