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Volume 5, Issue 4(Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal World Nursing 2016
August 15-17, 2016
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Associations between education, continuous professional development and provision of quality obstetric care
during labour and neonatal care among nurses and midwives in SouthAfrica
Provision of efficient emergency obstetric care is critical in maternal and child healthcare (MCH) services. The purpose
of this paper is to determine the association between education and skills training related to MCH for the provision of
adequate neonatal care in South Africa (SA). A self-administered questionnaire was used in this cross-sectional study; to
assess healthcare professionals’ education, continuous professional development (CPD) training, and the provision of adequate
and sufficient care for the neonates in the MCH services. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation analysis were used
to analyze the data, and to ascertain the associations between the measures. Of the 193 respondents, 65.1% were working as
registered nurses, whilst 30.8% were registered midwives; the remainder were either staff nurses or enrolled nurses. Certain
basic and essential protocols, such as assessing and recording the Apgar score in all neonates at 2 and 5 minutes after birth, were
not always conducted at deliveries. There was a significant positive correlation between a CPD training and provision of basic
obstetric care for the neonate (r=0.81). CPD training is a critical intervention in obstetric services where updated knowledge of
protocols is necessary to identify and manage high-risk pregnancies and provide efficient neonatal care. A training programme
that imparts the correct knowledge and that improves the clinical skills of both registered midwives and nurses will help reduce
the maternal and infant mortality rates in SA.
Biography
P Reddy holds a PhD from Maastricht University (NL), MPH from the University of Massachusetts (USA) and BSc degree in Nursing from the University of Cape
Town (SA). She has supervised more than 15 PhD students. She holds several prestigious awards for academic excellence. She has conducted research as a PI
in maternal and child healthcare, NCDs, tobacco control, youth risk behaviours, etc., with grants from reputable funders such as the British MRC, Wellcome Trust,
CDC, and NIH RO1 grants. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and has been serving as a reviewer for number of peer-reviewed journals.
She has served on a number of national and international committees as a board member, including the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), McMaster
University/Maastricht University Global Health Programme; and served on expert panels for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science of the
USA (IOM), National Committee for Health Research, World Health Organization Health Promotion Glossary Reference Group, International Presidential AIDS
Panel established by the President of South Africa, etc.
P Reddy
University of the Western Cape & Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
P Reddy, J Nurs Care 2016, 5:4(Suppl)