Nurses at the Kingston Maternal and Child Health Service conducted a quality improvement project examining the usefulness of the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale as a screening tool. (non-author ...abstract)
This quasi-experimental study was conducted to explore what kind of impact a Web-based educational program can have on nursing students and how nursing students react to this educational program. A ...Web-based computer assisted instruction for maternity nursing practice was developed by researchers using Instruction System Design model and serviced for nursing students on the WWW. To study educational effect of this program on nursing students 30 senior students at a school of nursing were selected. They were assigned into experimental and control groups based on their maternity nursing practice schedule. The effect of the Web-based CAI was measured using Achievement score, attitude toward learning experience and attitude toward computer and Internet, and compared between two groups. There were significant differences between two groups in achievement and attitude score. And students in the experimental group showed positive response to the Web-based CAI program. These results suggest that Web-based CAI is useful as a new teaching tool for maternity nursing practice as well as other nursing courses. Comments on program improvement and operational issues were collected from students. These will be used for program improvement in future.
Much of what maternal caregivers of chronically ill children do has been taken for granted by both these mothers selves and the general public. The majority of the research in this area has focused ...on the stress caregiving provokes. But, the everyday experiences, concerns and practices of maternal caregivers remain veiled. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to articulate maternal caregivers' concerns, knowledge, and needs, with interpretive strategies and from a feminist perspective. Data were derived from a larger observational cohort study. Three qualitative interviews, at study entry, three months, and six months, of twelve maternal caregivers were analyzed. The findings of this study revealed how the self- and world-changing character of becoming a mother of a chronically ill child. Particularly the initial time felt often scary, alien and chaotic, but nevertheless the mothers would take-up caregiving and did what had to be done, without much support of others. As time went by, the turbulent character of entering a new world of complex caregiving diminished. Illness practices became integrated in their lives and all women saw how caregiving gave them a more meaningful life. However, in spite of this more-or-less confident mode of being, the mothers felt often misunderstood or even isolated in their daily practice and concerns. Their worries about being responsible for all care, at all time, were not understood. No one could take from them the fear of making mistakes or the struggle with doubt about decisions that they had to make. Questions about sharing or handing over responsibilities to others or the ill children themselves became rather stressful. And, finally, the experienced lack of insightful understanding about their everyday lives by clinicians, supporting hospital staff, rule-creating and decision-making authorities showed how the most obvious social demands of caregiving for this group of taken-for-granted caregivers are not facilitated by the designated professional caregivers. The stories of these women stressed the importance of recognizing that maternal caregivers' work is taken for granted and the need to offer tangible support from the beginning, in order to help care for the ill child the mother in her caregiving.
Cultural and religious beliefs in Jordan do not allow male nursing students to practice in the female patients' wards, especially in maternity units. Yet a maternal and infant care nursing course is ...a required component of Jordan's four-year undergraduate nursing curriculum. Below, how a maternal/infant care course specific for male nursing students with the aim of teaching related but culturally appropriate nursing skills was developed.
Separate short reports on the following are presented: home-based parent support program; abdominal pain in young children may be linked to anxiety and depression; identifying the early warning signs ...for learning and behavioural difficulties in children; maternity care in remote areas; health promotion in remote areas; benefits of exposure to sunlight to the developing fetus; mentoring program for regional nursing students; playground safety design and standards. (non-author abstract)
Separate short reports on the following are presented: home-based parent support program; abdominal pain in young children may be linked to anxiety and depression; identifying the early warning signs ...for learning and behavioural difficulties in children; maternity care in remote areas; health promotion in remote areas; benefits of exposure to sunlight to the developing fetus; mentoring program for regional nursing students; playground safety design and standards. (non-author abstract)
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1975.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Marie M. Seedor. Dissertation Committee: Phil C. Lange. Includes bibliographical references ...(leaves 169-179).
D.Cur.
The midwife is the pivot around whom training activities in midwifery revolve. Her knowledge and skill form an inseparable part of the effectiveness of her practice. The external and internal ...environment of the midwife play a vital role regarding the demands placed upon her. The internal and external environment of the midwife is dynamic, and change continually. The external environment in the past ten years has undergone marked changes: health policy has changed; legal-ethical changes have occurred; the roles of the private sector and fee-for-service practitioners have changed; a new government with other objectives has placed the emphasis on new needs at professional and lay levels. These changes place new demands on the midwife's practice. Because the internal and external environments are in interaction, changes in the internal environment are continually being made, for example the knowledge and competency required by the midwife must continuously be improved so that she can comply with the new demands in her practice. The training of the midwife ought to be such that she is adequately equipped to fulfil the demands set by practice. The goal of this study is: an exploration and description of the knowledge and skill required by the midwife to be able to accept her responsibility in the new health care service of South Africa and set guidelines for the basic training of midwife who is to function independently.