INTRODUCTION HIV counseling and testing during labour can be emotional, but is important because it allows mothers and babies to receive PMTCT prophylaxis if previous identification of HIV infection has not occurred. The study explores how HIV testing and counseling during early labour affects women. METHODOLOGY This was a qualitative exploratory study to understand women's experiences during...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is sprawling the epic journey and emotional storms battered by women in her short story “Zikora”. The Nigerian-American author does not stick to details of pregnancy labour alone but she also an emphasis on single motherhood. This deals with plight women, maternal mortality, motherhood, polygamy, societal expectations, misinformation about female body, pregnancy, sexual...

There is ample evidence that modern nurses are under strain and interventions to support the nursing workforce have not recognised complexity inherent in work. Creating a model of work may assist developing workable solutions professional problems. A new also foster cohesion among broad diverse roles. The aim this meta-narrative review was investigate how researchers, using different methods th...

Among the growing body of literature concerning teaching and learning about Holocaust, very little research has explored experiences teachers from an emotional perspective. This study considers emotion work done by educators who are Holocaust at site Auschwitz-Birkenau. Through lens ‘emotional labour’, explores how articulate their work, they manage emotions in situ . The findings reveal a comp...

This article focuses on emotions, conceptualised as emotional labour, evoked during data practices used to repurpose and enable healthcare journeys for Finnish public healthcare. Combined approaches from critical studies the sociology of emotions were contribute a better understanding mundane but often invisible work experts involved in practices, such facilitating building technologies. The is...

BACKGROUND Policy makers and health professionals are progressively using evidence-based rationale to guide their decisions. There has long been controversy regarding which maternal position is more appropriate during the first stage of labor. This problem has been examined often and repeatedly and the optimal recommendation remains unclear. METHODS This is a systematic review of the effect o...