Midwifery Education Program Texts

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Note:  Texts change from quarter to quarter.  The texts listed here are only representative of the texts that might be required for a class.  Definitive lists of Required Texts will be provided to enrolled students.

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Quarter 1
Assessment of Women
Midwifery Care 1
Educational Skills
Perinatal Epidemiology
Perinatal Nutrition

Quarter 2
Counseling for the Childbearing Year 1
Clinical Skills 1
Genetics
Gynecology
Midwifery Care 2: Prenatal Care
Pharmacology and Treatments 1
Introduction to Practicum
Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation

Quarter 3
Midwifery Care 3: Advanced Pregnancy and Prenatal Care
Counseling for the Childbearing Year 2
Clinical Skills 2
Professional Issues Seminar 1 - History of Health Care and Medicine in North America
Pharmacology and Treatments 2

Quarter 4
practicum only - no texts

Quarter 5
Midwifery Care 4: Labor and Birth
Counseling for Labor and Birth
Professional Issues Seminar 2 - Rise of the Modern Midwife in North America

Quarter 6
Midwifery Care 5: Newborn and Postpartum Care
Postpartum Counseling
Postpartum Nutrition
Professional Issues Seminar 3

Quarter 7
Midwifery Care 6
Professional Issues Seminar 4

Quarter 8
practicum only - no texts

Quarter 9
Midwifery Care 7

Quarter 10
Professional Issues Seminar 5 - The Business of Midwifery

Quarter 11
practicum only - no texts

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QUARTER 1
 

Assessment of Women


Required Texts

Assessment E-Pack for use on WebCT may also be required.

You can purchase the textbook and E-Pack together at a reduced price from the publisher.

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Midwifery Care 1


Required Texts
   
You will also need to purchase a pregnancy dating wheel.

SMS provides the following 3 books:

  • Caring for our Future: Content of Prenatal Care
  • Steiger, Carolyn. (1987) Becoming a Midwife. Hoogan House Publishing, Portland, OR (out of print)
  • Carr, Katherine Camacho. (1988) How to develop a policy and procedure manual for a midwifery service. Pennypress Inc. Seattle, WA

Recommended Texts

(will be needed in future Midwifery Care courses)
 
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Educational Skills


Required Text
SMS provides the following text:

Family Centered Education: The Process of Teaching Birth. Booth, Trish (IC0095, available from ICEA)
 

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Perinatal Epidemiology


Required Texts
  this text was used in previous quarters
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Perinatal Nutrition


Required Texts

Or your choice of software, access to web site, or other source - discuss at first class

Recommended Texts
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QUARTER 2
 

Counseling for the Childbearing Year 1


Required Texts
none
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Clinical Skills 1


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Genetics and Embryology


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Gynecology


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Contraceptive Technology (18th ed, Hatcher), is also available from: https://managingcontraception.com/store/productdetail.php?id=21

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Midwifery Care 2


Required Texts

SMS provides

When You Are Pregnant. Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women. Education Programs Associates, Inc. Campbell, CA, 1993

Caring for our Future: The Content of Prenatal Care. U.S. Public Health Service Expert Panel on the Content of Prenatal Care. (1989)

Buy directly from March of Dimes at 1-800-367-6630:

March of Dimes Nursing Module (1998) Nursing Assessment of the Pregnant Woman: Antepartal Screening and Laboratory Evaluation (Mary Lee Barron; Lynn G. Wellman, editor) #33-910-98

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Pharmacology and Treatments 1


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Introduction to Practicum


Required Texts
SMS provides:
Steiger, Carolyn. (1987) Becoming a Midwife. Hoogan House Publishing, Portland, OR (out of print)
 

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Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation


Required Texts
This course is offered through the Simkin School.  Click here for Required Texts.
 

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QUARTER 3


Midwifery Care 3 - Advanced Pregnancy and Prenatal Care


Required Texts
 
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Counseling for the Childbearing Year 2


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One Additional Text to Be Assigned in Class
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Clinical Skills 2


Required Texts

Frye, Anne. Healing Passage: A Midwife's Guide to the Care and Repair of the Tissues Involved in Birth, 5th edition (Labrys Press, 1995)

Available from Cascade or from Labrys Press.
 

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Professional Issues Seminar 1 - History of Health Care and Medicine in North America


Recommended Text

also available in the SMS Library Reserves - groups will be assigned to present on specific chapters
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Pharmacology and Treatments 2


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QUARTER 5


Midwifery Care 4: Labor and Birth


Required Texts
           

SMS provides

Fetal Health Surveillance in Labour,  3rd edition, 2002, Canadian Perinatal Regionalization Coalition
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Counseling for Labor and Birth


Required Text (last names A-H)

Required Text (last names L-Z)
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Professional Issues Seminar 2 - Rise of the Modern Midwife in North America


Required Text

Required for US Students

Required for Canadian Students
   
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QUARTER 6


Midwifery Care 5: Newborn and Postpartum


Required Texts
SMS provides MAWS forms for postpartum/newborn care
       
 
(if you have an alternative guide, you may check with the instructor about substitutions)
 
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Postpartum Counseling


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Postpartum Nutrition


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Professional Issues Seminar 3


Required Text
no required texts
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QUARTER 7


Midwifery Care 6


Required Texts
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Professional Issues Seminar 4


Required Texts - All Students

Required Text - US Students

Required Texts - Canadian Students
Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada by Roy J. Romanow.  Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada.  November, 2002.  ISBN: 0662330439.

The report is available on-line at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/pdf/romanow/pdfs/HCC_Final_Report.pdf.

Hard copies of the report can be purchased directly from Canadian Government Publishing at: http://publications.gc.ca/control/publicHomePage?lang=English%20

Or through local bookstores that carry Government of Canada publications. P.S.  The report is also available in French.

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QUARTER 9


Midwifery Care 7


Required Texts
no new texts required

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QUARTER 10


Professional Issues Seminar 5 - The Business of Midwifery


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