his book contains information about- demonstrating professional accountability for the delivery of nursing care as per inc standards/icm competencies that are consistent with moral, altruistic, legal, ethical, regulatory and humanistic principles in midwifery practice, communicating effectively with individuals, families and professional colleagues fostering mutual respect and shared decision making to enhance health outcomes, recognizing the trends and issues in midwifery and obstetrical nursing, reviewing and describing the anatomy and physiology of human reproductive system and conception, etc... It teaches students how to describe and apply physiology in the management of normal pregnancy, birth and puerperium, and how to demonstrate competency in providing respectful and evidence based maternity care for women during the antenatal, intranasal and postnatal period. It also educates readers on how to uphold the fundamental human rights of individuals when providing midwifery care, promote physiologic labor and birth, and conduct normal childbirth, provide evidence based essential newborn care, apply nursing process approach in caring for women and their families and much more.