Jamila Abuidhail
midwives, nurses, and physicians. Jorden
Biography
Introduction: In Jordan, as other countries, there is over-use of treatments that were originally designed to manage complications of labour and birth. However, many healthy women and newborns become exposed to the side effects of unnecessary interventions, which are used routinely as limited mobility in labour, episiotomy, and caesarean section.
The purposes of the study are: to explore the extent of the application of evidence- based practices in the maternal and newborn clinical settings from professional view: midwives, nurses, and physicians. To identify the barriers to change in the maternal and newborn care practices from the health care providers’ perspectives.
Methods: a general qualitative design was used to explore health care providers’ perspectives regarding evidence- based practices in the maternal and newborn clinical settings.
Data collection methods were mainly semi-structured interviews with the participants and observation. All interviews were audio recorded, then transcribed verbatim and translated into the English language.
The Findings of this study were summarized in four main themes that described the application of evidence-based practices in the maternal and newborn clinical settings. These themes are: 1) Limited resources (human, financial and infrastructures). 2) Work Bureaucracy in Ministry of Health its affiliated hospitals. 3) Social and cultural influences. 4) Lack of evidence- based research environment.
Conclusion: there is weak application of evidence-based practices in the maternal and newborn clinical settings in governmental hospitals in Jordan. This is because of many obstacles and limited resources.