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The International Council of Nurses and the World Health Organization have designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. 2020 Is also being celebrated as the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. The DAISY Award, as a global recognition of compassionate, extraordinary nursing care, aligns with both celebrations. DAISY stories from around the world demonstrate that nursing care delivered with compassionate skill is truly global and knows no boundaries!
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Awards and Prizes , Midwifery/standards , Nurse's Role , Public Health Nursing/standards , Empathy , Global Health , Humans , Nurse-Patient RelationsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: Increasing numbers of lesbian and bisexual women are choosing to have children. This qualitative study investigated the degree to which a sample of Canadian lesbian and bisexual women were satisfied with the health and social services that they received during the process of trying to conceive, during pregnancy, and during the early postpartum weeks and months. METHODS: Three focus groups were conducted: (1) women who were themselves, or whose partners were, in the process of trying to conceive (n = 6); (2) biological parents of young children (n = 7); and (3) women who were non-biological parents of young children or whose partners were currently pregnant (n = 10). Participants were asked to discuss their positive and negative experiences with health and social services during their efforts to conceive and through the perinatal period. RESULTS: Participants were very satisfied with the care they received from midwives, doulas, and public health nurses. Services directed specifically to lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents were also perceived to be important sources of information and support. Many participants perceived fertility services to be unsupportive or unable to address their different health care needs. CONCLUSION: Participants expressed satisfaction with pregnancy-related services provided by non-physicians and dissatisfaction with services provided by physicians and fertility clinics. There is a strong desire for fertility services specific to lesbian and bisexual women, but even minor changes to existing services could improve the satisfaction of lesbian and bisexual patients.
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Attitude of Health Personnel , Bisexuality/psychology , Homosexuality, Female/psychology , Maternal Health Services/standards , Physicians/psychology , Canada , Female , Focus Groups , Humans , Insemination, Artificial , Midwifery/standards , Patient Satisfaction , Postpartum Period , Pregnancy , Public Health Nursing/standards , Social PerceptionABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To use case method seminars in order to critically assess "home visits" for public health nursing practice. METHOD: "The twelfth childbirth" was developed for use as material for the case method in 2002. This case story involves the dilemma of a public health nurse as to whether or not she should intervene in the "private affairs" of a married couple. Case teaching was performed in two seminars during the period from July 2002 to February 2003. Participants in the first seminar were 18 health professionals (13 public health nurses and five supervisors) in Japan, and nine health professionals (8 midwives and one physician) from Cambodia took part in the second. RESULTS: For the problems from the case, the participants in the two seminars made their decisions analytically. Decision making was informative and took different directions. The public health nurses in Japan advocated a collaborative intervention with other health professionals. On the other hand, the midwives from Cambodia selected an approach involving heavy commitments to family planning undertaken by individual midwives. From the discussion in the seminars, this case story was satisfied through the following: (1) the participants used the information in the case to address the problem; (2) the participants thought analytically in order to evaluate potential solutions; and (3) the participants had sufficient information for analysis in the case. CONCLUSION: Both seminars provided good opportunities to enhance critical thinking on "home visits" as a tool for intervention and to develop thinking skills needed for public health nursing practice.
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House Calls , Public Health Nursing/standards , Cambodia , Case-Control Studies , Female , Group Processes , Health Education , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , Japan , Male , Midwifery , PregnancySubject(s)
Midwifery/statistics & numerical data , Obstetric Labor, Premature/prevention & control , Patient Education as Topic , Physicians/statistics & numerical data , Prenatal Care/standards , Public Health Nursing/standards , Canada , Female , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Pregnancy , Prenatal Care/organization & administration , Program Evaluation , Public Health Nursing/organization & administrationSubject(s)
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/organization & administration , National Health Programs , Public Health Nursing/standards , Humans , National Health Programs/economics , National Health Programs/legislation & jurisprudence , National Health Programs/organization & administration , New Zealand , Public HealthABSTRACT
The sociology of knowledge provided the conceptual and methodologic basis for this study of the relationship between the philosophic concept of holism and the professionalization of public health nursing. Set in the context of the history of ideas, the discussion examines the various meanings of holism and the circumstances surrounding their adoption, modification, and use in public health nursing. The nursing literature from the late 1800s to the 1980s was analyzed to explicate the pragmatic consequences of holism for public health nursing, and to examine holism's moral value and its part in establishing and extending public health nursing's professional domain.