STRENGTHES AND WEAKNESS OF POSTNATAL CARE: PERSPECTIVES OF WOMEN OF SAAD ABU ALELLA TEACHING HOSPITAL KHARTOUM SUDAN 2015

Abstract

Abstract

Postnatal care is very important because the postnatal period is

critical period for women and her baby.

Aim

of study was to assess the

strengths and weakness of postnatal care perspective of women in

saad abualella teaching hospital. Across-sectional descriptive hospital

based study

design

was conducted among postnatal women who have

delivered spontaneous vaginal delivery attending to the postnatal

ward. The

sample size

of this Study was 133 postnatal women

convenience

sampling technique through interviewing questionnaire.

This questionnaire consisted

of two sections, section one Socio

demographic data, and section tow is Quality of Postnatal Care.

Results

of this study showed that

most of women oriented about

postnatal care, in addition to most of them were assisted to newborn

care; also more than half of women were oriented of visiting follow-up.

Conclusion

of this study that the women in postnatal ward were

provided good care by the nurses, all treatment was given in time and

more than half of women were satisfy of this care. This study

recommended

that the nurses must be provide updating training

program about quality of care to provision good quality of care

according to the new guidelines and evidence based practice and

women must be take program for any new in postnatal period by

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