finished her paper work until around 0100 and was too tired to drive home. Around 0900 she met her patient, a 16-year old girl who was getting ready to deliver. The plan was to break the young girls water and start Pitocin so she could deliver. Julie followed her units protocol to prep the patient’s epidural at the same time she was preparing to administer and IV antibiotic. She entered the patients room with the patient’s IV antibiotic and epidural. Both the IV antibiotic and the epidural had identical
One of Healthy People 2020 overarching goals is to achieve health equity, eliminate health disparities and improve the health of all groups (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 2010). In order to help achieve that goal, U.S. health professionals must be knowledgeable of and sensitive to the beliefs and practices of the various cultures that make up our country. Lipson (1996) defined culture and conveyed, Culture…is a system of symbols that is shared, learned and passed on through generations
INTRODUCTION ?Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.??? Robin Lim ?Birth is the epicentre of women?s power.? ?Ani DiFranco ?Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.??? Harriette Hartigan ?.. and the quotes go on? The unique power of a woman lies in her ability to conceive and give birth and this has been described as the most blissful event in her life