Journal of Nursing and Health Studies

Standardized Humanistic Childbirth Care: where are we in Egypt?

EuroSciCon Event on Nursing Diagnosis & Midwifery
September 10-11,2018 Prague,Czech Republic

Amina El-Nemer, Rania El-Kurdy

Woman Health and Midwifery Nursing Dep. Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt Lecturer of Woman Health and Midwifery Nursing Dep. Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Health Stud

DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C4-012

Abstract

Childbirth is one of the most important events in women's lives, despite all recommendations, the care provided and practices for childbirth are not standardized. The aim of this study was to assess childbirth practices at Mansoura governmental hospitals in Egypt and their consistency with performance standards for maternal and neonatal health, normal labour and delivery (NLD). A cross sectional descriptive design was utilized. This study was carried out at the labour and delivery units in Mansoura District, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt from August 2016 to February 2017. The subjects of the study included all health care providers (46 obstetricians and nurses) who were working in different labour and delivery units during the study, as well as 243 intrapartum women who were admitted to these units. Study results showed low percentage of achievement regarding the performance standards for maternal and neonatal health (NLD), among all studied hospitals. Recommendations of the study includes, the quality of maternal and new-born health care must be achieved and maintained by adhering to quality assurance standards, health care providers need to be trained on inter-personal skills in order to have positive and sensitive attitude toward women's during labour, recommended strategies to address unmet needs of PPFP, periodic on job training about the use of the partograph should be provided to all health care providers, and regular supportive supervision is also needed to motivate staff to utilize the partograph and record their findings accordingly.

Biography

Amina Mohamed Rashad Mahmoud El-Nemer is the Dean of Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt from 2016 till date. She was earlier the Vice Dean of Faculty of Nursing, student affairs from 2015 to 2016. She has many International Projects and Coordination’s like “Development and implementation of a labour companionship model for integration in public hospitals in three Arab middle-income countries (Beirute, Syria, Egypt) American University of Beirut) which was funded by World Health Organization, Switzerland in 2013-2015”. “Research Ethics Training program at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, during the time of June to July 2005”. “Human Participants Protection Education for Research Teams online course sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), on 07/09/2005, USA”. She also published various research papers like “Utilization of a Self-Care Educational Program for Alleviating Chemotherapy Induced Physical Side Effects. Journal of Cancer Treatment and Research, 2015”. “Maternal Near –Misses in a University Hospital. IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science (IOSR-JNHS), 2015”. “Effect of Childbirth Counselling on Pregnant Women Requested for Caesarean Delivery. IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science (IOSR-JNHS) 2015”. She also has experience on “Quality assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education, Health Research Ethics, Qualitative Research, women Health”.

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