Best Practices in Midwifery: Using the Evidence to Implement Change

First Edition an AJN Book of the Year Award Winner

This second edition of a groundbreaking book is substantially revised to deliver the foundation for an evidence-based model for best practices in midwifery, a model critical to raising the United States' current standing as the bottom-ranking country for maternity mortality among developed nations.With a focus on updated scientific evidence as the framework for midwifery practice, the book includes 21 completely new chapters that address bothcontinuing and new areas of practice, the impact of institutional and national policies, and the effects of diversity and globalization. Incorporating themidwifery model of care, the book provides strategies for change and guidance for implementing evidence-based best practices.

The book examines midwifery efforts to improve the health of women and children in the U.S., for example, Strong Start, US MERA, Centering Pregnancy, a focus on physiologic birth, and successful global endeavors. It encompasses a diverse nationwide authorship that includes leaders in midwifery, academicians, midwives representing diversity, hospital- and community-based practitioners, and policymakers. This coalition of authors from diversebackgrounds facilitates an engaging and robust discussion around best practices. Chapters open with a contemporary review of the literature, a comparisonof current (often scientifically unsubstantiated and ineffective) practices, evidence-based recommendations, and best practices for midwifery.

Key Features:

• Focuses on scientific evidence as the framework for midwifery practice
• Addresses continuing and new, controversial areas of practice with strategies and guidelines for change
• Includes 20 out of 27 completely new chapters
Authored by a diverse group of 44 prominent midwifery leaders
• Examines practices that are in conflict with scientific evidence


Author: Barbara A. Anderson
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 08/09/2016
Pages: 568
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780826131782

About the Author
Barroso, Rebeca: -

Rebeca Barroso, DNP, MSN, CNM, FACNM, is an assistant professor of midwifery at Frontier Nursing University and practices full-scope midwifery at HealthEast Care, Saint Paul, Minnesota, serving low-income national and international clientele at Seton Catholic Charities Clinic. She has an extensive background in clinical midwifery and women's health, working with vulnerable women experiencing health disparities from multiple cultural backgrounds. She has been in continuous full-scope certified nurse-midwife (CNM) practice for more than 20 years. She is a preceptor and coordinates clinical education for CNM, women's health nurse practitioner, and family nurse practitioner students, chairing the Education Committee of HealthEast Care. She is a faculty member and mentors midwifery and doctor of nursing practice students at Frontier Nursing University. She is co-editor of DNP Capstone Projects: Exemplars of Excellence in Practice (2015). Dr. Barroso won the 2011 W. Newton Award from the American College of Nurse-Midwives and is active in the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the Minnesota Advance Practice Nurses Coalition.

Rooks, Judith P.: -

Judith P. Rooks, MPH, MS, CNM, FACNM, is past president of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. As a nurse-midwife and epidemiologist, she has had many years of service with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was the principal investigator of major studies published in professional journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. She has been a consultant to family planning and midwifery programs globally and served in the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General. She has authored more than 100 published papers and is the author of Midwifery & Childbirth in America (2007). In 1993, she received the American Public Health Association's award for outstanding service to the health of mothers and babies. She is currently involved in work related to the safety and risks of home births in the United States. Although retired, she continues to work on behalf of mothers, babies, and midwives.

Anderson, Barbara A.: -

Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, has had a long career in nursing and public health, field-based teaching, mentorship, program planning, curriculum development, and academic administration.