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Assessment Of Intrapartum Nurses' Beliefs Related To Birth Practices, Janice Scaggs
Assessment Of Intrapartum Nurses' Beliefs Related To Birth Practices, Janice Scaggs
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Intrapartum nurses’ beliefs influence nursing behavior and nursing interventions during labor and birth. Assessing these beliefs in a regional hospital in the Southeastern United States was the focus of the doctoral project. Before the project, there was no objective data that assessed individual nurse’s beliefs and birth practices in the labor and delivery unit, or among the nursing staff as a whole. A knowledge gap existed in understanding if the nursing culture valued, promoted, and supported intended vaginal birth. Nursing leadership recognized that the overall cesarean birth rate and primary cesarean birth rate in the hospital were similar to State …
Evaluating The Experience Of Patient And Provider Satisfaction In Participation In A Hybrid Virtual Perinatal Care Model In A Private Practice Setting, Gretchen Ann Delong Nelson
Evaluating The Experience Of Patient And Provider Satisfaction In Participation In A Hybrid Virtual Perinatal Care Model In A Private Practice Setting, Gretchen Ann Delong Nelson
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Improving access to health care in general and to appropriate prenatal care specifically are two leading health indicators (LHI) as designated by Healthy People 2020 (U.S Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) also prioritizes minimizing health disparities that prevent women from entering into prenatal health care (CDPH, 2019). In Fresno county, transportation to specialty care such as perinatal care has been identified as a barrier (CDPH, 2017). The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) have identified a standard of fourteen to sixteen visits for …