MCN. The American journal of maternal child nursing
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To explore the lived experience of childbirth in Dutch women who had given birth at home in the Netherlands. ⋯ Women in a culture different from that of the United States who gave birth at home felt fulfilled and empowered by the experience. These results can help U.S. nurses more fully understand the meaning of childbirth in a different culture and may help identify possible improvements in the design of care for women and newborns in the United States.
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MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs · May 2007
Family attitudes about tobacco smoke exposure of young children at home.
To explore families' attitudes about smoking and their perceptions of the effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure on their children. ⋯ To protect children from the negative effects of ETS exposure, nurses should discuss not only if parents smoke but also if family members and friends are allowed to smoke in the home. It would be helpful to assess the priority that parents set on ETS and how they attempt to prevent it in their daily lives.