Background: Midwives encounter various difficulties while aiming to achieve excellence in providing maternity care to women with mobility disabilities. The study aimed to explore and describe midwives' experiences of caring for women with mobility disabilities during pregnancy, labour and puerperium in Eswatini.
Methods: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, contextual research design with a phenomenological approach was followed.
Background: People living with disabilities are often women and the elderly and those from low-income families. There is paucity in research on women with mobility disabilities' experiences of maternity care during pregnancy, labour and puerperium in Eswatini.
Aim: To explore and describe women with mobility disabilities' experiences of maternity care during pregnancy, labour and puerperium in Eswatini.
Background: Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes have been reported to reduce the rate of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection by 30% - 40% during pregnancy and childbirth. The PMTCT transmission is achieved by offering HIV prophylaxis or initiating antiretrovirals to pregnant women who test HIV positive. Being aware of the experiences of these women will assist in planning and implementing the relevant care and support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The manner that birth events unfold can have a lasting impact on women. Giving voice to women's experiences is key in the creation of care that embodies humanistic, family-centred service.
Aim: The aim of this research was to describe the experiences of women receiving care during childbirth.
Aim: to reconceptualise the concept of failure to rescue, distinguishing it from its current scientific usage as a surveillance strategy to recognise physiologic decline.
Background: failure to rescue has been consistently defined as a failure to save a patient׳s life after development of complications. The term, however, carries a richer connotation when viewed within a midwifery context.
Aim: The goal of the first part of the study was to explore and describe the experiences of students with regard to value-sensitive clinical accompaniment in community nursing. The purpose of phase two of the research and of this article was to develop guidelines for value-sensitive clinical accompaniment of student nurses by professional nurses in community nursing
Background: Undergraduate students have reported that owing to different cultures and values, value conflicts are experienced during clinical accompaniment, which affects clinical learning in community nursing negatively.
Method: A qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research design was done in a specific context; guidelines were formulated as a result of the findings in phase 1.