Adolescent maternity involves relevant factors associated with each family, culture and society. This research aimed to describe the experiences in the trajectory of adolescent maternity. The oral history method was used, obtaining the narratives of 21 adolescent mothers living in a low income community located in São Paulo City, Brazil. The following descriptive categories emerged from the nar...

While planning a new maternity teaching hospital, we encountered the problem of relating number of delivery rooms to expected case load. The flow of patients in the teaching and research sections of the hospital could be predicted on the basis of previous experience, but for an attached "sector unit" the problem was much more difficult. The unit was intended to serve a new function, and therefo...

BACKGROUND Canada's diverse society and its statutory commitment to multiculturalism means that a synthesis of knowledge related to the healthcare experiences of immigrants is essential to realise the health potential for future Canadians. Although concerns about the maternity experiences of immigrants in Canada are relatively new, recent national guidelines explicitly call for the tailoring of...

background and purpose: violence is defined as unnecessary hostile behavior in clinical environments, which may lead to psychological abuse by colleagues. this systematic review aimed to evaluate violence and its associated factors among nurses. methods: in this study, we searched for articles and patented documentations published until december 2014 via databases such as pubmed, medline, scopu...

anxiety is a feeling of worry and excessive concern against obscure danger about inner or outer threat, which occur in form of ambiguous fear. it finally causes physical problem and impairs social and occupational functions. anxiety is the most common mental disorder. nursing totally is a difficult job and because of their working environmental and activity, they always encountering with damage...

The problem with the concept of work–life balance is that most of the onus of achieving such clarity and satisfaction is left to the employee. As a pediatric intensivist and mother of two, I am ruled by the demands and requirements imposed both by my employer and academic position and by my beautiful children. It is the culture around and perception of working mothers that needs to change – bot...

Background: Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, the hospitalization time of mother and newborn has shortened resulting in limited knowledge skills postnatal home-care. With development technology, maternity nurse becomes able provide online postpartum guidance for enriching women with information be deal minor discomforts neonatal problems, also minimize risk infection caused by face-to-face visits durin...

In the United States, federal acts and regulations, as well as professional guidelines, clearly dictate that every pregnant woman has the right to base her maternity care decisions on accurate, up-to-date, comprehensible information. Despite these efforts, evidence suggests that informed consent within current health-care practice is restricted and inconsistently implemented. Patient access to ...

Perinatal deaths occurring within the City of Harare, Zimbabwe, during 1983 were studied. Data were collected from all known deliveries within the city. This included exact numbers from three central maternity hospitals, and from referring midwife-run maternity clinics. An estimate was made of the number of births and perinatal deaths occurring within the city, but outside these official matern...