ONLINE MATERNITY LEARNING JOURNEYS WITH STUDENT NURSES

Abstract

Adult and mental health nurses, while not specialists in maternity care, often encounter pregnant women and birthing people in their daily work. Nurses’ ability to understand and empathise with the pregnancy journey is therefore essential. As part of the maternity curriculum for a rural first-year BSc adult/mental health nursing cohort, students attended new, interactive ‘gamified’ online lectures. The lectures encouraged students to explore experiences and choices from the client’s perspective during the antenatal period and labour.