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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Lynn Callister |Brigham Young |Cambria Jones
KeywordsHispanic labor, childbearing women, perinatal outcomes, post partumAbstractIn recent years there has been a surge in the influx of Hispanic immigrants to the United States. With this influx of immigrants pushing beyond the border states into more central United States, healthcare providers have been presented with the challenge of how to adequately meet the needs of Hispanic immigrants.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Lynn Callister |Brigham Young |Thacker Shelley
Keywordschildhood, Australia, women, labor, birthAbstractPrevious research on labor and birth in Australia has focused on mortality rates in hospitals and birthing centers. Gathering qualitative research is important to improve nurses’ culturally based care towards childbearing women. I knew of Dr. Callister’s similar research in various countries.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Karen Snyder Duke |Lynn Callister |Brigham Young
Keywordschildbirth, HIV, South African women, birthingAbstractThe birthing time is often one of great joy and anticipation, and is a significant juncture in any woman’s life. What is said and done for a woman during this intense time period can be critical in either improving a woman’s experience and ability to mother, or destroying it.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Stephen Wilkinson |Lynn Callister |Brigham Young
Keywordschildbirth, Ghana, Ashanti, perinatal careAbstractThe topic of my research evolved out of a desire to do a field study in Ghana through Brigham Young University’s Kennedy Center for International Studies. As I researched health care issues in the Ashanti Region, I discovered that many of the medical challenges that people in West Africa face are related to perinatal care.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Lynn Callister |Brigham Young |Zaruhi Ulikhanyan
KeywordsArmenian, childbearing women, newborns, healthAbstractDramatic socio-political and economic shifts which have occurred in Eastern Europe in the past decade have significantly influenced the health of women and newborns. High unemployment rates, low salaries, and inability to support more than one child are common challenges for women and families. High rates of abortion and most families having only one child has resulted in a declining population in Armenia.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Rachel Matthews |Lynn Callister |Brigham Young
Keywordsmaintenance, childbearing women, giving birthAbstractEntering a hospital is often an intimidating and stressful event for patients. They enter a world about which they often know very little. They may enter with apprehension about the unknown, their illness, or excitement about starting a new phase of life with the birth of a child.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Lynn Callister |Brigham Young |Melody Kuhre
Keywordsgiving birth, Australian women, childbearing, healthcare deliveryAbstractGiving birth is a life changing experience for women throughout the world. While its significance is universal, women’s perceptions of childbearing are unique depending on their socio-cultural context. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe the unique perceptions of childbearing women in Australia. Our research question was, what is the meaning of giving birth to Australian women?
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Lynn Callister |Brigham Young |Melissa A. Dalton-Richardson
Keywordspersonal mastery, giving birth, pregnant womenAbstractWithin recent years, there has been a steady increase of births attended by midwives in the United States. The reemergence of midwives to the medical scene provides pregnant women with alternative methods of birth.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Lynn Callister |Brigham Young |Lynn Clark |Vadim Zhitnikov
Keywordsclinical practice, Eastern European nurses, international collaborationAbstractNurses practicing in Eastern Europe do not enjoy the same opportunities as their counterparts in the United States. Recommended CitationZhitnikov, Vadim and Callister, Lynn Clark(2014)"Promoting Evidence Based Clinical Practice: Strengthening Eastern European Nurses,"Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014:Iss. 1, Article 1045. Available at:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/1045
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Lynn Callister |Brigham Young |Kimberly Ethington
Keywordscomputer anxiety, baccalaureate nursing students, computerized equipment, anxietyAbstractComputer usage is constantly increasing, both in nursing education and in nursing practice. From the computerized equipment in the critical care unit to the data-based computer terminals that are replacing charting, nurses need to have skills in order to adapt to the continually growing technology (1).
