- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Ethics in medical practice
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Reproductive Biology and Fertility
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Maternal and fetal healthcare
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
University of New Mexico
2013-2024
Thomas Cole Historic House
2023
GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences
2021
FHU Neurovasc
2021
RELX Group (United States)
2015
RELX Group (United Kingdom)
2015
University of California, San Francisco
2008-2015
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
2001
Abstract Nurses routinely provide care to patients in ethically challenging situations. To explore the continuum between conscientious objectors and designated staff provision of women seeking abortions, aim this study was thickly describe decision‐making, using abortion as clinical context elucidate how nurses approach work. A purposive sample 25 who worked clinics, emergency departments, intensive units, labor, delivery, operating rooms, post anesthesia units were interviewed. Qualitative...
Abstract Clinical management of emergency pregnancy care, such as ectopic or heavy bleeding with unknown location, includes upholding legal and ethical standards. For health care providers unwilling to provide evidence‐based life‐saving abortion due personal beliefs, clear guidance dictates disclosure these limitations the patient colleagues, followed by immediate referral for appropriate care. However, this decision‐making pathway may not be engaged a variety factors: providers’ beliefs...
Most midwives are aware of the need to collect clinical practice data and its usefulness in supporting care they provide, which contributes healthy outcomes for mothers babies. For individual midwife, there is more than one easily accessible, standardized collection instrument from choose. However, despite these choices, an American College Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Division Research (DOR) survey on midwifery (N = 263), majority member respondents (n 135; 51%) reported using a self-designed...
Worldwide, women continue to die during childbirth despite efforts reduce maternal mortality. Nicaragua, particularly the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN), possesses extremely high rates of It has been suggested that promoting facility-based birth is an effective method mortality through providing essential obstetric and emergency care most women. A significant barrier increasing globally mistreatment patients in health settings. This case report illustrates childbearing RAAN,...
In this article we explore how nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and midwives in California (collectively referred to as clinicians) developed confidence while learning provide vacuum aspiration abortion. We interviewed clinicians ( n = 30) who worked reproductive health care settings had participated a large abortion-training study. Although the training moral political significance for trainees, focus on their experience of skill development they gained competence abortion,...
We describe Guatemalan birth attendants' identification of vulnerable newborns, their evaluation gestational age and anthropometry, the validity Capurro New Ballard newborn assessment methods. interviewed 49 attendants trained 10 these women to assess 63 newborns. The methods were correlated (Spearman rho = .75, p < .001) showed agreement (Bland-Altman plot, difference bias, -0.33 ± 1.3 weeks). Prematurity was estimated at 27% (Ballard) 24% (Capurro); low weight (LBW) 30%. provided a...