Home care in perinatal nursing practice

Maternal and child health nurses praetice at all levels of care and in a variety of settings from home, schools and outpatient elinics to the most sophisticated intensive care unites.
Perinatal Nursing, focuses on the care of childbearing women and their families cluring pregnaney, childbirith and the fırst 4 weeks af ter birth. There have been significant changes in the praetice of perinatal nursing over the past 25 years. Many of the changes have been positive for childbearing women, but there have been some negative trencls in the care of women during labor and birth.
İmproving the home care services in perinatal nursing is one of the positive changes. Home care services in perinatal nursing provider services to obstetrical patients and their newborns in their home.
Home visits are designed to assist with physical restoration, psyhosocial adaptation and assisting the new mother and her family in adjusting to their new roles and responsibilites.
As the number of mothers, infants and children cared for in the home inereased the number of agencies olso inereased to meet this need. Thus, nursing care in the home is coming full circle.