PubMed · 11246829
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S Jackson. 2001-02-15. Two's a crowd.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11246829/
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AIM: To explore the meaning of caring in a fertility unit and to present the findings and discuss their implications for practice. BACKGROUND: Little research has been published internationally on the nature of nursing care in the fertility field. This study was intended to stimulate debate over the nature of care in fertility work. METHODOLOGY: An ethnographic approach, which included part-time participant observation and in-depth focused interviews with staff and patients. Data were also collected using a field and a research diary. Data were analysed using a modified thematic analysis. FINDINGS: The data suggest that caring is strongly linked with nurses and that patients' expectations of nurses may be more practically than emotionally focused. I argue that the organization of nursing work, which I call 'nursing the clinic and the doctor', facilitated this practical approach to caring. I discuss two features of nursing the clinic and the doctor: hovering and being there. CONCLUSIONS: While there may be other factors that influence the practice of this form of non-intimate caring, nursing in this way may be what patients desire and may be congruent with managing emotions. The findings have implications for the discourse on intimacy and caring within fertility nursing as well as in different outpatient settings.
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Heart rate and oxygenation status are essential to the delivery room assessment of newborn infants. Pulse oximetry (PO) can capture these two variables but low peripheral perfusion, patient motion and the presence of ambient lighting can challenge the technology. New generation pulse oximeters claim to measure through these conditions. The objective of this study was to assess the performance of new generation pulse oximeters during the delivery room assessment and management of high-risk newborns. Part one (study A) compared the outcome of 25 infants simultaneously monitored with two new PO technologies (experimental group) to a matched population of 25 infants without PO-monitoring (control group). Findings from the experimental group revealed a significant difference between new PO technologies and an improvement in patient outcome compared to the control group. Part two (study B) evaluated the affects of PO-monitoring on 15 very immature infants. Use of Masimo SET PO was associated with a rapid acquisition and near continuous display of PO values, which proved valuable for initial respiratory care and to determine the need for more intensive procedures. Both studies revealed that near immediate postnatal PO monitoring of newborns in the delivery room was feasible and valuable.