Explore the latest research and developments in obstetric and maternal nursing. This issue includes original research articles, case studies, reviews, and brief reports covering a wide range of topics relevant to clinicians, researchers, and educators.
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- Volume 2(Issue 2) JULY – DECEMBER 2025
Research Articles
Enhancing Quality in Perinatal Care: Thirteen Key Barriers to Optimal Maternal-Newborn Nursing Practice
Vol.2(2); Pages:1-9. Published on November 2025
Abstract
Maternal-newborn nursing has a central role in guaranteeing secure and caring treatment accessible to the mother and her infant. Nonetheless, there are various issues that are still hindering the provision of quality in this field on a regular basis. This paper discusses these thirteen issues, which are important in shaping highquality maternal-newborn nursing practice: workforce shortages, care disparities, communication barriers, inadequate nursing training, and changing family dynamics. The barriers are discussed within the context of the contemporary clinical settings and best-evidence practices, which can give us an idea of how nurses and health systems may be able to adjust to enhance the final outcomes. It is stated that systemic reforms, cultural competence, and interprofessional collaboration are all important to meet these challenges.
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Gendered Dimensions of Nurse Burnout and the Burden of Unseen Care Work
Vol.2(2); Pages:10-18. Published on November 2025
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Nursing burnout has now become an ubiquitous issue in health care systems around the world, but the origins and symptoms of this problem are usually coupled with gendered norms and valuing of hidden, unmeasured work of care. The paper attempts to discuss gender roles and their relationship with job burnout in the nursing field, the latter of which can be attributed to care giving responsibilities, which are often underacknowledged and unaccounted. Based on feminist theory and qualitative inquiry, the analysis points to how a large part of such emotional work and patient-centred care on the part of nurses and in particular women is invisible within official records, supporting structural inequalities. The study suggests that policy changes, acknowledgement of invisible care by the organisation, and gender-sensitive interventions are essential to the well-being, job satisfaction and overall retention in the sphere of nursing.
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Enhancing Hospital Nursing Documentation Quality through Optimized Paper Record Designs: A Scoping Review
Vol.2(2); Pages:19-25. Published on November 2025
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Nursing documentation is essential in assuring quality patient care, communication, and legal responsibility in the hospital facilities. Even with the emergence of electronic health records, a lot of institutions are yet to move to a paper-based system and even at that, bad form design may interfere with data accuracy and data consistency. The scoping review examines literature regarding the effect of the design of paper-based nursing records in determining the quality of documentation in hospitals. The review outlines the main characteristics of successful record designs, points at major issues in existing practices of paper documentation, and mentions evidencebased design principles that boost usability, completeness, and clinical relevance. Results indicate that predetermined layouts, standardized language, and visual elements enhance documentation results in a huge way. The present review shall assist healthcare administrators and practitioners in the optimal use of paper record tools to the advantage of improved nursing care and continuity of information.
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Advancing Compassionate Nursing Models: Integrating Trauma-Aware Approaches in Acute Psychiatric Hospital Environments for Holistic Care Reform
Vol.2(2); Pages:26-33. Published on November 2025
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This paper relates to the application of the trauma-informed care (TIC) nursing model in the acute inpatient mental health unit using a systematic practice development framework. Trauma-informed care recognizes the prevalence of trauma and incorporates this knowledge in clinical practices to establish an empowering, healing, and safe community among the patients and employees. This was done through the means of staff education, cultural change programs, leadership promotions, and parental feedback processes in order to incorporate TIC concepts into daily practice. The results were a higher patient engagement level, the decreased number of restraint and seclusion, better staff-patient relations, and greater confidence of the staff in addressing traumatic behavior. The importance of mental health nursing practice to integrate the concept of trauma-informed into practices to create a therapeutic environment that enhances recovery and resilience is noted in the study.
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Individual-focused dialogues in healthcare: A conceptual exploration through communication theory perspectives
Vol.2(2); Pages:34-41. Published on November 2025
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This teoretical reflection dwells upon the idea of individual-oriented discussions in the nursing and healthcare fields in terms of the communication theories. Based on the interpersonal, relational and dialogic models of communication, the research focuses on the context of the personalized, respectful and empathetic communication being the basis of person-centred care. It criticizes the typical task-based communication and propagates changing the practice to the authenticity of conversations, reciprocity and value of the patient voice, values, and lived experience. The paper provides a conceptual basis in terms of which meaningful member patient relationships and better care outcomes can be made by synthesizing positions of a nursing theory, health communication and relational ethics.
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A Descriptive Study to Assess Effectiveness of Health Literacy on Knowledge Regarding Torch Infection During Pregnancy Among Antenatal Mother in A Selected Phc, Puducherry
Vol.2(2); Pages:42-46. Published on November 2025
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Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) is a rare and complicated disorder related to the individuals who feel a ORCH infections including Toxoplasmosis, Other infections, Rubella, Cytomegaloviruses and Herpes simplex are major maternal infections that may cause severe fetal outcomes, such as congenital malformations, intrauterine growth retardation, and neurodevelopmental issues in the long-term. Although they have an effect, there are a lot of pregnant women who are not aware about these infections and how they can affect them. Health literacy, which has been described as the capacity to obtain, comprehend, and implement health-related information, is a very important factor in enhancing maternal knowledge and the development of preventive measures. This research was conducted to determine the efficiency of a health literacy program on enhancing knowledge on TORCH infection among antenatal mothers at one of the selected Primary Health Centres (PHC) in Puducherry. One-group pre-test and post-test research design design was used, where 51 antenatal mothers were recruited using the convenience sampling method. The data was collected based on a structured instrument that had demographic information and a standardized knowledge test. The pre and post intervention levels of knowledge were compared and assessed with descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that during the pre-test, 92.2% of the participants showed a poor level of knowledge, 7.8% moderately knowledgeable, and 0 showed adequate knowledge. The outcome of the post-intervention revealed an impressive improvement since only 3.9% were still inadequate, 56.9% achieved moderate knowledge, and 39.2% reached an adequate level of knowledge. This increase was found significant (p < 0.001).This research established that health literacy interventions are able to make a significant contribution to maternal knowledge of TORCH infections and thus improve mother and neonatal health outcomes.
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