Saving lives with caring assessments: how Tanzanian nurse-midwives and obstetricians negotiate postpartum practices.

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dc.contributor.authorMbekenga, Columba K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-25T06:07:52Z
dc.date.available2022-03-25T06:07:52Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractAims and objectives To explore the nurse-midwives’ and obstetricians’ experiences delivering postpartum care assessments and how it was constructed through personal, social and institutional discourses. Introduction The Tanzanian Government has prioritised maternal and child health as an urgent healthcare issue. Nurse-midwives and obstetricians are the two main providers of care throughout the prenatal and postpartum periods. Design A qualitative design guided by a feminist poststructuralist methodology. Methods Ten nurse-midwives and three obstetricians from three Regional Hospitals in Dar es Salaam participated in individual semi-structured in-depth interviews. Results Assessment emerged as a significant theme with three subthemes. Nurse-midwives shared their beliefs and values about assessments that focused on the safety of mothers and babies. They felt proud working with mothers and babies and shared their frustrations having to deal with inadequate working conditions. Guidelines and practices were part of the institutional discourse that impacted the day-to-day experiences of nurse-midwives and obstetricians. The nurse-midwives held the belief that it was vital to complete a comprehensive assessment to identify danger signs, keep mothers and babies safe and look for any abnormalities. They were concerned that mothers were being sent home too early. Conclusions Nurse-midwives’ experiences in the provision of postpartum care portray that these health providers work heartedly to make sure that the mothers and their newborns receive the best care they can provide. The health system is challenged to address the needed supplies and equipment for reproductive health in particular postpartum care services.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKohi, T.W., Aston, M., Mselle, L.T., Macdonald, D., Mbekenga, C., Murphy, G.T., White, M., OHearn, S., Price, S. and Jefferies, K., 2017. Saving lives with caring assessments: How Tanzanian nurse‐midwives and obstetricians negotiate postpartum practices. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), pp.5004-5015.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14000
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/924
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Clinical Nursingen_US
dc.subjectSaving livesen_US
dc.subjectPostpartumen_US
dc.subjectNurse midwivesen_US
dc.titleSaving lives with caring assessments: how Tanzanian nurse-midwives and obstetricians negotiate postpartum practices.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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