The Specialist Nurse and pain control in obstetrics

ISBN-13: 9786203715064 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str.

Ana Moulaz; Teresa Correia

Opis

On motherhood in contemporary society, with the advent of the medicalization of labor and birth, due to technological developments and the human need to gain control over the most primitive events, the woman is no longer the protagonist in the experience of childbirth. The indiscriminate performance of caesarean sections, the routine episiotomy, the use of analgesics, and the routine use of synthetic hormones such as oxytocin, despite aiming at the safety of the woman and the baby during the stages of labor, end up interfering in the physiology of labor and birth. The study of pain in obstetrics has the responsibility to demystify the overvaluation of the fear of pain and its repercussions, especially at the end of pregnancy with the proximity of the delivery event. Thus, pain management in midwifery is also an important tool for the humanisation of labour and birth, as recommended by the WHO, both in the management and provision of health care. The general objective of this study was to identify the information and application of non-pharmacological techniques for pain management in midwifery by Specialist Nurses.

O autorze

Moulaz, Ana Ana Moulaz has her expertise in the study of pain in obstetrics, carrying out research in the field of Maternal and Obstetric Health Nursing, since 2013, with the purpose of contributing to changing the way of birth through a positive birth experience. She is currently a PhD student in Nursing at the University of Lisbon.