Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Todd, Betsy

Titel

Maternity Nursing Stops Too Soon

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of nursing, 2021-07, Vol.121 (7), p.44-48

Ort / Verlag

New York: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Editor's note : From its first issue in 1900 through to the present day, AJN has unparalleled archives detailing nurses' work and lives over more than a century. These articles not only chronicle nursing's growth as a profession within the context of the events of the day, but also reveal prevailing societal attitudes about women, health care, and human rights. Today's nursing school curricula rarely include nursing's history, but it's a history worth knowing. To this end, From the AJN Archives highlights articles selected to fit today's topics and times. In this article from October 1975, Reva Rubin provides a fascinating historical overview of maternity nursing. She recounts the social and medical transformation of maternity care in the 20th century, emphasizing the nearly nonexistent support for pregnant, laboring, and postpartum women during much of that time. Rubin ends her article with a passionate plea to nurses for attention to “our big failure . . . the postpartum period.” She hints at the causes of what we now know to be postpartum depression, calling the postpartum period “unbelievably cruel,” and noting that “tissue recovery is fairly simple. Recovery of the whole person, however, is much more complex and requires much more skilled nursing.” In this issue, Barbara Marie Alba carries on the work of Rubin and other maternity nursing pioneers, providing a detailed overview of this subject in “Postpartum Depression: A Nurse's Guide.”— Betsy Todd, MPH, RN