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Asian Mothers, Western Birth

Antenatal and Postnatal Maternity Care for Vietnamese Women

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Book Title:	Asian Mothers, Western Birth
Chapter:	5
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Chapter 5: Antenatal and Postnatal Maternity Care for Vietnamese Women

Overview

Every nursing episode becomes an integral part of the whole social process building on what has gone before and influencing what is yet to come. (Christensen, 1993:9)

This chapter considers the encounters between health care providers and Vietnamese women in childbearing situations. ". . . what has gone before. . ." (the women's background) is first studied, followed by Vietnamese practices in these situations and implications for health care providers in Australia.

Speaker/ Author

HA TRAN
Ha was born in Saigon, Vietnam. She came to Australia in 1974. After completing a Bachelor of Science, she went on to study nursing, specialising in midwifery, psychiatric nursing and hospice nursing. She has a Graduate Diploma in Cancer Nursing and a Bachelor of Education. Ha is currently working as a midwife at Western Hospital in Melbourne and doing her Master of Education. Her research interests are in the area of Vietnamese women and childbirth.

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