Obstetrical Nurses' Attitudes Toward Fetal Monitoring |
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| Authors: | CHRISTINE SULLIVAN CRANSTON CNM MSN |
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| Institution: | Christine Cranston is a nurse-midwife at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, and has been a Nay nurse for nine years. Lt. Comdr. Cranston attended Florida State University (BSN) in Tallahassee, and St. Louis University (MSN) in Missouri, and is a member of NAACOC and ACNM. |
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| Abstract: | A 24-item tool, using a Likert attitudinal scale, was developed to measure labor and delivery nurses' attitudes toward fetal monitoring and was administered to 124 nurses. For each of the 24 attitude statements, cumulative responses were over 50% positive at least. Fifty-two percent of the nurses felt that routine continous monitoring of all labor patients would he ideal, and 88% felt that the fetal survillance achieved by monitoring cannot he matched by intermittent auscultation. |
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