An exploration of postpartum women's perspective on desired obstetric nursing qualities

Zenobia CY Chan, Kwan Sau Wong, Wing Man Lam, Ka Yi Wong and Yiu Cheung Kwok

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2014, vol. 23, issue 1-2, 103-112

Abstract: Aims and objectives To gain an understanding of the perceptions of postpartum women regarding the desired nursing qualities of obstetric nurses. Background Giving birth is one of the most memorable events in a woman's life. A positive birth experience can foster women's self‐worth and promote family relationship. As obstetric nurses play an important role in facilitating birth‐giving experiences, it is essential to explore postpartum women's desired nursing qualities of obstetric nurses. Design Qualitative approach based on 15 individual semi‐structural interviews Methods Fifteen postpartum women who had given birth to healthy newborns were selected through purposive sampling approach. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted and audio recorded in a private hospital in Hong Kong according to an interview guideline. Colaizzi's framework was used as a guideline to carry out interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results Five themes related to preferred obstetric nurses' qualities were captured: (1) providing information, (2) performing nursing skills in competent manner, (3) demonstrating a positive attitude, (4) attending to individual needs and (5) demonstrating cultural competence. Conclusion Nurses who demonstrate their skills, knowledge and attitude as well as their ability to give physical, psychological and educational support to postpartum women will be able to enhance patients' positive labour experience, resulting in greater patient satisfaction. Relevance to clinical practice By exploring postpartum women's desired qualities of obstetric nurses, nurses will gain a better understanding in their role and the definition of competent attitudes and skills. Nurses with preferred nursing qualities can enhance professional practice and patients' experience during the postpartum period, resulting in increased patient satisfaction.

Date: 2014
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12093

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:jocnur:v:23:y:2014:i:1-2:p:103-112

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Clinical Nursing from John Wiley & Sons
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().