The Nurse's Role in Family Planning

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by Antonina Likhodiy

The nurse plays a significant role in family planning, with an emphasis on three areas: nursing role and responsibilities, innovations aimed at improving the quality of patient care, and education reforms, including the use of computers and technology to collect and process data.

A nurse's role and responsibilities can be characterized as supporting health care, patient care, and rehabilitation. Our goal is to ensure positive outcomes and avoid complications of treatment. In order to do so, we incorporate the nursing process into our plan of care.

The components of the nursing process include:

1. Evaluation of a patient's condition,
2. Formation of the care plan (service),
3. Implementation of the plan, and
4. Evaluation of final results.

Innovations aimed at improving the quality of maternal and child care focus on teaching mothers the art of breast-feeding and caring for a newborn, and participation in the national program of family planning. The family planning program is targeted at reducing the number of abortions, improving sanitary standards, and teaching contraceptive technologies and related physiology.

In the area of data collection and computer technologies, we aim to improve statistical processing of data acquired in our clinical work. Use of these three methodologies has had a significant impact on the role of the nurse in family planning and has enhanced our image.

Antonina Likhodiy is Head Nurse at L'viv Perinatal Center,
L'viv, Ukraine
tel: 38 (0322) 42 91 67
fax: 38 (0322) 42 51 58
e-mail: root@percen.lviv.ua

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