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NCM 107: CARE OF MOTHER & CHILD (WELL CLIENT)

1ST SEMESTER AY 2023-24

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

NAME: Maria Dianne B. Ulanday BSN 2-2

TITLE OF THE JOURNAL : Birth as a neuro-psycho-social event: An integrative model of maternal
experiences and their relation to neurohormonal events during childbirth
AUTHORS/WRITERS: Ibone Olza ,Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg,Anette Ekström-Bergström,Patricia
Leahy-Warren,Sigfridur Inga Karlsdottir,Marianne Nieuwenhuijze,Stella Villarmea,Eleni
Hadjigeorgiou,Maria Kazmierczak,Andria Spyridou,Sarah Buckley
DATE PUBLISHED: Published: July 28, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230992

WHAT IS THE JOURNAL WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF HOW CAN I APPLY IT IN MY

ABOUT? THE JOURNAL IN THE NURSING PRACTICE AS A
NURSING PROFESSION STUDENT NURSE?

Psychological effects of labor During pregnancy especially As a nursing student, I have

and birth have received meager labor, oxytocin will make the always been fascinated with
attention within the scope of mom feel more affectionate and what happens at childbirth. The
nursing planning or clinical wholly altruistic, and its main pain of labor contractions is
practice. The main purpose of function in labour is to bring on excruciating to watch. Therefore,
this journal was to offer a model contractions for proper delivery. I would love to help future
demonstrating how So with this, effects of both the mothers in making their pain less
neurohormonal processes, in drug and physical touch/bonding by giving suport via oxytocin-
particular oxytocin-containing will help tremendously. The inducing techniques like
mechanisms, not only control the nursing profession’s system emotional support and physical
physiological aspects of labor might as well incorporate actual touch.
and birth, but also contribute to one-on-one nursing support as
the subjective psychological much as possible to delivering Unfortunately, the ratio of nurse
experiences of birth. Also, mothers. to patient is not what is
sensory information from the advisable since the quality of
uterus as well as the external As of the moment, in the care is not optimal. It is then in
surroundings might influence Philippines the ratio is far from my concern to always use my
these neurohormonal processes the ideal and we must note that. competence in applying critical
thereby influencing the progress How can we increase favorable judgement. That is which is
of labor and the experience of proportion? Maybe encouraging examined in practical settings.
birth. higher salary and benefits is the Having the insight of what
answer. But economically strategy to conduct in specific
It is really advisable that one-on- speaking, we are at gargantuan settings will at least make it to at
one ratio of patient and support inflation rate that it seems far least more acceptable
like midwife/nurse is crucial for from possible. The question now standards.
the betterment of transition to lies on how we can first improve
motherhood. The physiological our economy. Once we have Reality is we don’t live in a
importance of social support for good budget then we can perfect world. But being
reduction of pain and stress proceed with the paper’s emotionally intelligent would
during labor prompts a big proposal which is 1:1 ratio. really make a big difference in
advantage to maternity care. my clinical decisions.
NCM 107 Prepared By: Jesmar S. Espiritu PhD RN RM DOCUMENT #: 2024 001
NCM 107 Prepared By: Jesmar S. Espiritu PhD RN RM DOCUMENT #: 2024 001