We have developed a variety of open learning resources and other publications for midwives to help them develop their portfolio and meet their PREP requirements.
Transition to Parenting
This is an innovative educational resource that seeks to assist midwives to promote secure, nurturing relationships between parents and newborn babies. It is a five-booklet pack:
Unit 1 - Introduction
Unit 2 - Changing social context of parenting
Unit 3 - Transition to motherhood
Unit 4 - Transition to fatherhood
Unit 5 - Normal behaviour of the newborn baby
Brown Study Series
This series has been developed to encourage midwives to think deeply and reflect upon all aspects of midwifery practice. They will enable midwives to think creatively about how they practise and provide woman-centred care. Each resource has an extensive reading list, further reading and useful website addresses.
No.1 Midwifery clinical practice: the first stage of labour
Part 1 The onset of labour
Part 2 The progress of labour
Part 3 Maternal needs in labour
Part 4 Augmentation in labour
Part 5 Documentation and record keeping
No.2 Midwifery clinical practice: the second stage of labour
Part 1 The birth environment
Part 2 Maternal hormones
Part 3 The process of labour
Part 4 Duration of the second stage of labour
Part 5 Pushing in the second stage of labour
Part 6 Monitoring progress
Part 7 Holistic midwifery practice
Part 8 Restitution and rotation
Part 9 Documentation and record keeping
No. 3 Midwifery clinical practice: the third stage of labour
Part 1 The birth environment
Part 2 Maternal hormones
Part 3 The physiology of the third stage of labour
Part 4 Active management of the third stage of labour
Part 5 Blood loss
Part 6 Examination of the placenta and membranes
Part 7 Documentation and record keeping
Other publications
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Normality in midwifery (1997)
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New perspectives in parenting education (1998)
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Midwifery audit: good practice guidelines (1998)
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Midwifery practice in the postnatal period (2000)
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Portfolio development series (second edition) (2000)
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Reassessing risk: a midwifery perspective (2000)
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Home birth handbook volume 1: promoting home birth (2002)
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Home birth handbook volume 2: practising home birth (2003)
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Sources of funding booklet
Copies of the RCM open learning materials and other publications are available from the RCM online bookshop.
