Journal of Nursing & Care

Department of Family Medicine, St. Peter Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Knowledge of Essential Newborn Care among Nurses and Midwives Working in Lideta Sub City Government Health Centers
  Author(s): Filmona Mekuria*, Alemayehu Bekele and Tinebeb Seyoum
  
  Introduction: Neonatal mortality constitutes a major public health problem. Ethiopia has made a great progress on institutionalization of deliveries where deliveries are mainly facilitated by midwives and nurses by providing essential newborn care. Hence, assessing the knowledge of these professionals is a primary concern. Therefore, this study is intended to identify knowledge gap on essential newborn care. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge of essential newborn care and associated factors. Methods: Facility based cross-sectional study was conducted. All nurses and midwives who provide delivery and neonatal care were involved in the study. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to participants to collect data and facilitated by data collectors. Data was entered to.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/1168/22.11.507

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