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Minimizing Infant Exposure To And Risks From Medications While Breastfeeding, Sandra Banta-Wright
Minimizing Infant Exposure To And Risks From Medications While Breastfeeding, Sandra Banta-Wright
Faculty Publications - College of Nursing
The advantages of breastfeeding to the mother and newborn are many. Lactating mothers frequently ask about the safety of taking medications and the risk to their newborn. It is well established that all drugs are excreted into breast milk. However, most medications appear in only small amounts within the breast milk. With the availability of numerous resources on drug use while breastfeeding, a medication can be identified as contraindicated or compatible with breastfeeding. By understanding the anatomy of the breast, principles of lactation, and drug passage into breast milk, an approach to minimize the transfer of the medications in the …
Pregnancy, Bedrest, And The Family: Development Of Communicative Tools Which Reflect The Stressors And Coping Strategies Of Childbearing Families Requiring Bedrest During Pregnancy, Amy R. H. Weeks
Honors Capstone Projects and Theses
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The Impact Of An Educational Program On Anxiety Of Student Nurses Related To Perinatal Loss, Connie Telles
The Impact Of An Educational Program On Anxiety Of Student Nurses Related To Perinatal Loss, Connie Telles
Master's Projects
Objective: To measure the effectiveness of a perinatal loss workshop on death anxiety of nursing students. Design: Simple, pretest-posttest. Setting: A classroom at a State University in California. Participants: 20 junior students in a baccalaureate nursing program in a maternal-child rotation. Intervention: A 60-minute perinatal loss workshop including Worden's tasks of mourning, therapeutic and non-therapeutic nursing interventions, photographs, poetry, and coping skills . Main Outcome Measure: Anxiety towards perinatal death was measured by Speilberger's State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI Form Y-1). Data were also gathered with a demographic questionnaire and a posttest. Results: The mean score on the PREST AI …
The Lived Experiences Of Single Teenage Mothers In Botswana : A Phenomenological Study, Tshepiso D. Mojapelo
The Lived Experiences Of Single Teenage Mothers In Botswana : A Phenomenological Study, Tshepiso D. Mojapelo
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This study was designed to explore-the lived-experiences of single teenage mothers in Botswana, as perceived by them. The participants were teenage mothers who had to leave school due.to pregnancy. They had either completed year one in secondary school or were in year two. Their ages ranged between 16 and 19 years. The ages of their babies range from five to 10 months, with the exception of one child who was three years old. All teenage mothers came from low socio-economic backgrounds with families whose parents were either not working, or were working in the lowest paying jobs as cleaners or …