Abstract

Intrapartum nurses play a significant role in shaping the lived experience of a woman's birth. Examining the lived experience of women's birth can serve as a critical component in nursing practice as a means to improve patient care outcomes with regards to the development of a perinatal mood disorder. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine women's unexpected birth experience in order to ascertain what contributions from these women's stories might be made to enhance nursing care. Husserl's descriptive phenomenology was the qualitative research design used to examine women's unexpected birth experience, defined as any or all of the following: (1) an instrumentally assisted vaginal delivery either by forceps and/or by a vacuum extractor; (2) a third or fourth degree tear; (3) birth by an emergency Cesarean delivery; or (4) women who perceived that their delivery was incongruent with their expectations.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3220181; ProQuest document ID: 305337383. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Joanne G. Goldbort, PhD, RN

Sigma Membership

Alpha Psi

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Phenomenology

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Labor and Delivery Nursing, Birth Experiences, Unexpected Birthing Experiences

Advisor

Sharon Sims

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Indiana University

Degree Year

2006

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None: Degree-based Submission

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Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2020-02-04

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