Owinos Theory of Nurse-Client Interactions for Childbirth Preparedness is analyzed and evaluated for the first time since its development in 2011. It describes the theorys professional context by defining the metaparadigm concepts depicted. It shows how Owinos theory converges with focused antenatal care (FANC) guidelines in key areas of childbirth preparedness, and further recognizes the unique and prohibitive rural context in which antenatal care takes place in rural Suba District of Nyanza Province in Kenya. The theory states the need for both nurse and client to adopt dispositions that...

The purpose of this book is to show the analysis of nurse - client interaction processes within the context of antenatal nursing in a rural context, and how the emerging concepts were used to generate a substantive theory of the processes involved in influencing the decision of mothers for skilled attendant delivery. This was a qualitative study, using Grounded Theory methodology. Analysis of concepts from observations of antenatal clinic sessions, nurse perspectives and client perspectives led to the resultant "Theory of nurse-client interactions for childbirth preparedness". The theory...