The recent paper by Ewer et al 1 and an accompanying editorial 2 in the Lancet raised the question of universal pulse oximetry screening of newborn infants on the postnatal ward prior to discharge. In the Republic of Ireland there are 75,000 births annually, distributed across nineteen maternity units. We surveyed all of these units regarding the use of oxygen saturation screening on the postna...

ABSTRACT Objective: to know nurses' perception in relation the Nursing Process directed newborns a usual risk maternity ward. Method: an action-research study was conducted between September 2021 and January 2022 with nurses from ward southern Brazil. The data collected through focus groups were submitted content analysis. Results: organized analyzed resulted two thematic categories, namely: pr...

To find out the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus nosocomial infection and methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA), clinical samples from nosocomially infected patients were processed by following standard methodology in microbiology laboratory, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. Of 149 S. aureus isolates, skin infection isolates contributed a major part 72.5% making nos...

Objective: Checking the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with prevalence of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in a maternity school. Materials methods: A quantitative cross-sectional study hospital Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. In data collection, we used standardized form that contained from medical records 83 women for period 2018. Stata version 14 software was analyses. Bivariate analys...

This paper examines how workload affects the provision of care in a large but understudied segment healthcare sector – maternity wards. I use detailed patient-level administrative data on childbirth, and exploit quasi-random assignment unscheduled patients to different staffing ratios. find that probability C-section increases at decreasing rate with workload. show this result is not attributab...

The maternity ward of the University Hospital in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, attempts to follow World Health Organization guidelines for humanized childbirth care, including the encouragement of non-surgical delivery, breastfeeding, rooming-in, extended family visitation, and reduction of excessive technological intervention in the delivery process. The study focuses specifically on ...