The aim of this study is to investigate the nursing care for parturient women baseei on the nurses’ perceptions under humanitarian views. Five nurses, who work during morning, eveníng and night shifts ai the Normal Delivery Unit, were the basis of this study. The data was collected during the months of Juíy and August of 2002 at a public federal maternity with 205 beds. It was conducted opened observation and r...
This is a descriptive, exploratory study which aimed to analyze the proxemic communication of the mother-child binomial in a Neonatal Intensive Therapy Unit-ITU in Fortaleza-Ceará from October to November 2006. The sample consisted of 20 mothers and 20 newborn babies. Six factors from Hall’s Proxemic Theory were used. The results showed three interaction angles between mothers and newborns: eighteen mothers wer...
The aim of this study of qualitative nature was to learn about a father’s perception in the face of his child’s birth. It was carried out in the puerperium unit of a big public maternity hospital associated to the national health system in the city of Fortaleza-CE. The subjects of this research were fifteen fathers who were visiting their children and wives. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews...
The aim of this study is to identify the nursing care given to the laboring parturients based on the nurse’s perceptions under humanitarian views. Five nurses, who work during morning, evening and night shifts at the Normal Delivery Unit, were the basis of this study. The data were collected during the months of July and August 2002 in a public federal maternity. For data collection it was conducted open observ...
This is a descriptive, exploratory study which aimed to analyze the proxemic communication of the mother-child binomial in a Neonatal Intensive Therapy Unit-ITU in Fortaleza-Ceará from October to November 2006. The sample consisted of 20 mothers and 20 newborn babies. Six factors from Hall’s Proxemic Theory were used. The results showed three interaction angles between mothers and newborns: eighteen mothers wer...
This study reflects the concepts of Paterson’s and Zderad’s humanistic theory, applied to daily nursing care during labor and childbirth. The objective of the study is to understand the importance of their application to attendant care. We take into account that the application of such concepts in obstetric nursing provides to the nurse and the expectant mother interaction and also a sense of being properly car...
The aim of this study of qualitative nature was to learn about a father’s perception in the face of his child’s birth. It was carried out in the puerperium unit of a big public maternity hospital associated to the national health system in the city of Fortaleza-CE. The subjects of this research were fifteen fathers who were visiting their children and wives. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews...
Comfort is expected for every woman going into labor in the form of aid, attention, presence and care of the obstetric nurse and the presence of family, the attendant, the doula and the entire team that is driving her to all kinds of care. It aims to uncover the comforting care for women during childbirth as a goal of nursing to health promotion in the contexts, physical, environmental, social and psycho. A des...
Estudo descritivo-exploratório, objetivou analisar a comunicação proxêmica do binômio mãe-recém-nascido (RN) internados numa Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal – UTIN em Fortaleza-Ceará, de outubro/novembro/2006. 20 mães e 20 RN compuseram a amostra. Utilizou-se seis fatores da Teoria Proxêmica de Hall. Os resultados mostraram três ângulos de interação entre mãe-RN: dezoito mães frente a frente, uma lateral,...
This is a descriptive, exploratory study which aimed to analyze the proxemic communication of the mother-child binomial in a Neonatal Intensive Therapy Unit-ITUin Fortaleza-Ceará from October to November 2006. The sample consisted of 20 mothers and 20 newborn babies. Six factors from Hall’s Proxemic Theory were used. The results showed three interaction angles between mothers and newborns: eighteen mothers were...