Health promotion and disease prevention: Advanced Practice Nursing competencies in women's health consultations.
Jaqueline Martins Ramos, Daiana Bonfim, Andrea Liliana Vesga-Varela and 1 others
PMID 42524948WHAT IT FOUND
In women's health nursing consultations, prenatal prescriptions were common, but tailored educational materials were absent and lifestyle counseling was documented in 24.64% of visits.
Key findings
01Folic acid and ferrous sulfate were prescribed in 86.2% of consultations.
02Healthy lifestyle counseling was documented in 24.64% of consultations, and assessment of prior knowledge with an individualized care plan was recorded in 33.33%.
03Printed educational materials were not provided in 94.2% of visits, and the competency to develop educational materials tailored to each woman was not observed in any consultation.
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What it does not show
The units and participants were selected by convenience, so the consultations may not represent all Brazilian primary care settings. Only 69 consultations from 22 nurses were analysed. Video recording may have changed how nurses behaved. The competency checklist was developed for this study and may not measure advanced practice competencies consistently. The study reports consultation content, not patient outcomes, so it cannot show whether these practices improved women's health.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the high prenatal prescribing rate as evidence that advanced practice nursing improves outcomes. The study describes recorded consultation content in a convenience sample and reports no patient outcomes.