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

• Autor(es): Quadros, Jacqueline Silveira de ; Reis, Thamiza Lauriany da Rosa dos ; Colomé, Juliana Silveira
• Data: 2016
• Origem: Oasisbr
• Assunto(s): Health Education; Obstetric Nursing; Women’s Health.
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo científico
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.