GEBELİĞİN TIBBİ TERMİNASYONU: HEMŞİRELİK DESTEK PROGRAMI ÖRNEĞİ

Loss of pregnancy is a life crisis with bio-psycho-social and spiritual aspects which affect the mother and other family members. Especially feticide in pregnant women who exceeded viability limit is a backbreaking situation for the mother. The loss is not limited to the loss a baby for the family, it also causes hopelessness and disappointment towards future. Termination of pregnancy process contains various difficulties in relation to pregnant woman’s coping with and adapting to anxiety, fear based on lack of information and the difficulties during medical termination decision. In addition, there is a need for physical (pain, bleeding, nausea, vomiting etc.) and spiritual (anxiety, fear, grief etc.) care that should be met after the labour of the woman. Care needs of the family that suffered a loss should be determined and care should be provided by a professional team. When solving the medical problems identified, the nurse cooperates with multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary healthcare professionals and assumes coordinator role in addition to her role as caregiver. The aim of this review is to definition a termination of pregnancy process, nursing care of termination of pregnancy women as well as an attempt to attract attention to the necessity of using the nursing models and to enable the spread of their usage by explaining the utilization of “Roy’s Adaptation Model” with a sample.