tailieunhanh - Obstetric and Gynecological Nursing

At an implementation level there is a shocking lack of consistency and coordination among the donors, UN agencies and governments. Poor coordination has resulted most notably in a lack of clear and accurate guidance being provided on infant feeding options to HIV-positive mothers. In country after country, researchers were told of the widespread stigma and discrimination that HIV-positive pregnant women face, particularly in health care settings. As one research team noted, “Women alone bear the weight of preventing vertical transmission and the result of a possible positive HIV test.”. | Lecture Notes For Nursing Students Obstetric and Gynecological Nursing Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative Meselech Assegid Alemaya University In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative The Carter Center the Ethiopia Ministry of Health and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education 2003 USAID FROM the AMERICAN PEOPLE Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00. Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative The Carter Center the Ethiopia Ministry of Health and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education. Important Guidelines for Printing and Photocopying Limited permission is granted free of charge to print or photocopy all pages of this publication for educational not-for-profit use by health care workers students or faculty. All copies must retain all author credits and copyright notices included in the original document. Under no circumstances is it permissible to sell or distribute on a commercial basis or to claim authorship of copies of material reproduced from this publication. 2003 by Meselech Assegid All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the author or authors. This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or students and faculty in a health care field. Preface This lecture note offers nurses comprehensive knowledge necessary for the modern health care of women with up-to-date clinically relevant information in women s health care. It addresses and contains selected chapters and topics which are incorporated in the obstetrics and gynecology course for nurses. However a major focus is provided on the role of the nurse in providing quality maternal and newborn care. The obstetric nurse does a three or four month