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Nursing and motherhood constructions: implications for practice

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  • 1Tasmanian School of Nursing, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.

Nursing Inquiry
|June 5, 1998
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Community child health nursing services in 1920s Australia promoted "scientific motherhood," influencing maternal care. Understanding this history enhances contemporary nursing practice with mothers.

Area of Science:

  • History of Nursing
  • Social History of Medicine
  • Australian Social History

Background:

  • Establishment of child health nursing services across Australia post-WWI.
  • Focus on the development of Tasmania's child health service.
  • Early services known as infant welfare or child welfare.

Observation:

  • Widespread adoption of child health services in Tasmania within two decades.
  • Mothers increasingly relied on nurses' 'expert' guidance.
  • Promotion of 'scientific motherhood' by child health nurses.

Findings:

  • Child health nurses in the 1920s actively promoted 'scientific motherhood', influenced by Dr. Truby King.
  • These services reinforced specific ideological constructions of motherhood.

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  • Historical reinforcement of motherhood ideologies by nursing services.

    • Implications:

    • Understanding historical nursing practices enhances contemporary practice.
    • Relevance to current nursing interventions, such as addressing postnatal depression.
    • Informs nurses about the impact of ideology on maternal care.