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

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...

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Main Authors: Jacqueline Silveira de Quadros, Thamiza Lauriany da Rosa dos Reis, Juliana Silveira Colomé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará 2016-08-01
Series:Rev Rene
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Online Access:https://www.periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/4930
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1517-3852
2175-6783