Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to G E Chute.
The management of breastfeeding can have a powerful effect on its outcome. To promote success, the nurse must use strategies that are based on an understanding of lactation and the breastfeeding infant. The nurse also must guard against strategies that, although intended to be helpful, sabotage the delicate breastfeeding relationship. Success-promoting and sabotaging strategies are discussed.
This pilot study confirmed the existence of wide differences between a group of nursing faculty and a group of staff RNs with regard to the way in which faculty and their roles are perceived. Fewer differences were evident with regard to which characteristics were viewed as important for nursing faculty to possess. We suggest that comparable discrepancies may be present in other settings similar to ours; furthermore, we believe that such differences may contribute to the gap between service and education, and we therefore recommend further study.
The gap between the worlds of nursing practice and nursing education became a reality for the authors when they entered academia after several years of practice. Expecting openness and respect from nursing staff, they often encountered subtle resistance and skepticism instead. The experience inspired them to conduct a study comparing staff and faculty perceptions of nurse educators. What they found led them to believe that faculty and staff may need to correct and align perceptual differences in order to work together more effectively.
A study was conducted to determine if differences exist between the clients of two types of health-care services with regard to the childbirth experience. Nurse-midwife-attended and physician-attended births were compared in terms of the birthing woman's expected and actual participation in her own birthing experience. Questionnaires were completed before and after delivery. The nurse-midwife group both anticipated and experienced significantly more active participation in the birth than the physician group. Also, women attended by nurse-midwives viewed themselves and their partners as the most important individuals for contributing to the satisfaction of the experience while women attended by physicians more often viewed the infant as most important. Differences between the study groups were also found regarding the perceived importance of the birth attendant and the staff nurse.