Technical Experience and Future Issues in Maternity Nursing Students

From the analysis of practical training records in maternity nursing

Abstract

We determined current technical experience and future issues in maternity nursing training in students of the department of nursing of A college by summarizing practical training records kept by individuals after obtaining consent. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the 47-item practical training records collected from 86 nursing students in the third grade in 2009. The results showed that 72 students attended to puerperants who followed a normal course after childbirth; 12 students attended to puerperants who delivered by Cesarean section; and 2 students attended to pregnant women hospitalized for maternal control. More than 90% of students had technical experience of providing Leopold's maneuver in pregnant women, and also of health examination, evaluation of jaundice index, changing diapers, holding a baby in the arms, and laying a baby down in neonates. Nineteen students (22.1%) observed a delivery and 33 students (38.4%) gave newborns a bath or blanket bath, mainly helping dress or undress babies and wash the buttocks. An increase in high-risk mothers, concurrently with a decrease in childbirth, has a major influence on practical nursing training. Future studies need to review the existing practical training and methodology of maternity nursing in further accordance with the reality.