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Obstetrical nursing and health education: contributions to the experience of process of parturition

Author(s): Quadros, Jacqueline Silveira de ; Reis, Thamiza Lauriany da Rosa dos ; Colomé, Juliana Silveira

Date: 2016

Origin: Oasisbr

Subject(s): Health Education; Obstetric Nursing; Women’s Health.


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Objective: to understand the contributions of obstetrical nursing to health education activities aimed at the parturition process. Methods: qualitative research conducted with ten hospitalized puerperal women who had vaginal delivery in a maternity ward. Results: two categories emerged from the data of this research: Weaknesses of prenatal care for pregnant women and The obstetrical nurse as potentiator of humanized care. Conclusion: obstetrical nursing, through educational work, strives to promote a reframing of the process of parturition, rescuing parturition as a physiological process, and emphasizing the use of natural resources in the evolution of labor and delivery.

Document Type Journal article
Language English
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