title: Participation in prepared childbirth. Baccalaureate nursing education.
abstract: Nurses need to meet consumer demands for quality maternal-infant health care. To meet this need, the College of Nursing faculty at the University of Florida included prepared childbirth classes as a clinical experience in a BSN program. Each student works with a client couple in an ambulatory care setting to provide complete and individualized nursing care through the final weeks of pregnancy, the labor and delivery experience, and for a brief period postpartum. How this program facilitates students' development of a holistic approach to maternal-infant nursing and increases the quality of health care for expectant parents is described.
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009321:Natural Childbirth; D009773:Obstetric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011247:Pregnancy; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology