Nurse-midwives reconfiguring care in the scope of labor and births in COVID-19 times.

Autor: Dulfe PAM; Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Alves VH; Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Pereira AV; Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Vieira BDG; Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Rodrigues DP; Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Marchiori GRS; Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Branco MBLR; Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2021 Apr 14; Vol. 74Suppl 1 (Suppl 1), pp. e20200863. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 14 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0863
Abstrakt: Objectives: to analyze how the nurse-midwives of maternity wards that were fields of practice for an improvement course in obstetrics have reorganized care in the context of labor and birth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: this is a descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study carried out with nine nurse-midwives who are preceptors and collaborators in maternity wards that were fields of practice for an improvement course, between February and April 2020, through a semi-structured interview through WhatsApp®. Content analysis was used to treat the information.
Results: the pandemic brought the need to reorganize work, with a focus on service training and maintenance of good practices in labor and birth, whose movement was intensely experienced, interfering in nurse-midwives' mental health.
Conclusion: nurse-midwives have faced the pandemic with concerns about maintaining safe care, focused on practices based on updated scientific evidence.
Databáze: MEDLINE