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Mental Health (Postpartum Depression)
Proactive Nurses Take Action to Assist Depressed Mothers
September 28th, 1998
Nurses and physicians are taking a proactive stance against postpartum depression. At least that is the case at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. There, Hillary Straub, PhD, RNC, and colleagues founded the multidisciplinary Postpartum Depression Task Force and Quality Improvement Team seven years ago in response to their findings that health care providers were uninformed about this illness. They described their efforts in the September/October 1998 issue of Maternal-Child Nursing ("Proactive Nursing: The Evolution of a Task Force to Help Women with Postpartum Depression," MCN, Sept/Oct 1998;23(5):262-265). "When we searched the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (1998-09-28)
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