Giving birth: The voices of Australian women

Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-136

  Callister, Lynn Clark ^a   Holt, Shelley Thacker ^a   Kuhre, Melody West ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australian women; Childbirth; Qualitative inquiry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; BIRTH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; LOVE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; LOVE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PARTURITION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SPIRITUALITY; VICTORIA;

EID: 77951993005     PISSN: 08932190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JPN.0b013e3181cf0429     Document Type: Article

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