Pi Mu Professional Day: Impacts of Birth Plans on Maternal Satisfaction

Impacts of Birth Plans on Maternal Satisfaction – Kaylyn Brooks (one of my Honors students!)

Common topics

• pain management
• surgical interventions
• health care provider
• location of birth

Midwife focus group themes

• flexible plan or preference sheet, not a locked down contract
• birth plan provides options to present health literacy issues
• plan does not always meet their wants in the moment

Pi Mu Professional Day 2017: Male Nursing Student Experience

An exploration of the male nursing student experience: promoting success in a predominantly female profession – Betsy Heron

• research based on work with
• 9.2% of RNs in US are male
• male student enrollment increased from 10 to 15%
• therefore, issues remain related to retention
• 11 interviews of male former nursing students
• Georgie’s methods of
• Coding completed across four researchers
• Themes
  • gender bias exists
  • patients refusing care
    • often occurring in the maternity/women’s health rotation
    • disbelief that patients were okay with male doctors but not male nurses
    • attitude of the instructor affects the experience, either reinforcing the barrier or setting norm for patients
  • singled out by instructors
    • better know to faculty since there were fewer
    • called on more often
  • doing the “manly” stuff
    • lift, turn, move patients
  • no male role models
    • mixed responses regarding participation in a male nursing student organization

Presentation notes

• theme presentations with short quotes
• follow up focus on each theme with additional, longer quotes

Questions

• How do these experiences compare to other health profession fields with a majority gender? For example, what about OT?
• There is still a pay gap between male and female nursing students. How does hiring occur? Does the minority status of male nurses factor into this pay gap?