Supporting Rural Women During Pregnancy: Baby BEEP Nurses.
Emily C Evans, Linda F C Bullock
PMID 27926600WHAT IT FOUND
Nurses who gave low-income rural pregnant women weekly telephone support acted as resources, teachers and counselors.
They helped women manage worry, seek care and talk through personal crises.
Key findings
01Analysis of 24 phone logs showed most care occurred in the resource, teacher and counselor roles.
02Nurses used the resource role to give health information and help women notice danger signs.
03Nurses used the counselor role to address feelings, relationships and personal loss.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for RNs
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What it does not show
The analysis used only selected phone logs, so it cannot describe all nursing care. The logs were written by the nurses, so they may not capture what patients thought or what was not recorded. Participants were low-income rural English-speaking smokers, so findings may not apply to other pregnant women. The paper describes roles and process. It does not report whether the Baby BEEP primary outcomes changed.
Declared interests
The original Baby BEEP data were obtained through a grant named Nursing Smoking Cessation Intervention during Pregnancy. The supplied text does not give a conflicts of interest statement.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that telephone nursing calls improved smoking, stress or pregnancy outcomes. The paper analyzes phone logs to describe what nurses did. It does not report whether the Baby BEEP primary outcomes changed.