Applying Learning Principles Within Parent Education: Exploring Nurses' Practice and Parents' Experiences.

Purpose: In parent-education practice nurses use Learning Principles (LPs) when helping parents to develop the knowledge and skills required to care for their children. LPs are basic precepts of learning, comprising people's beliefs, behaviors and reasoning processes. LPs underpin parents' active engagement, confidence building and decision-making, as information provided becomes usable knowledge.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's experiences accessing standard hospital care for birth in South Australia - A phenomenological study.

Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, hereafter called Indigenous women, can experience a lack of understanding of their cultural needs when accessing maternity care in the standard hospital care system.

Aim: To explore the lived experiences described by Indigenous women accessing labour and birth care in the standard hospital care system at a tertiary public hospital in South Australia.

Methods: An interpretive Heideggerian phenomenological approach was used.

Cultural safety and midwifery care for Aboriginal women - A phenomenological study.

Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander(1) women face considerable health disparity in relation to their maternity health outcomes when compared to non-Aboriginal women. Culture and culturally appropriate care can contribute to positive health outcomes for Aboriginal women. How midwives provide culturally appropriate care and how the care is experienced by the women is central to this study.