J Korean Acad Womens Health Nurs.  1998 Mar;4(1):29-37.

Identity of Women's Health Nursing

Abstract

This paper describes why maternity nursing need to be extended and expanded to women's health nursing. Women's health nursing was developed and influenced by philosophical reasoning such as existentialism, feminism, and postmodernism. Also social changes accelerated to progress the maternity nursing to women's health nursing. Reproductive health is the core concept of women's health nursing as well as maternity nursing. The major content of women's health nursing includes maternity nursing area. Thus those researchers who study women's health nursing should take initiative role in multidisciplinary researches to solve health problem and improve the quality of women's life.


MeSH Terms

Existentialism
Feminism
Infant, Newborn
Maternal-Child Nursing
Nursing*
Postmodernism
Pregnancy
Reproductive Health
Social Change
Women's Health*
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