Journal of Women's Health Care
Open Access

A descriptive study on the implementation of the essential new born care protocols in rural health units in Eastern Pangasinan

7^th World Congress on Midwifery and Womens Health

May 11-12, 2018 Osaka, Japan

Fernan N Torreno, Corazon De Sola, Maria Cesalynen Grace Fabro, Elizabeth Velasco and Gemmalyn Beltran

Urdaneta City University, Philippines

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Women's Health Care

Abstract :

The study aims to evaluate the perspective of health care professionals on implementation of the essential new born care protocol as well as the problems encountered of respondents from 6 rural health units of Eastern Pangasinan along with governance, service delivery and regulation. A descriptive quantitative research design was employed through a survey questionnaire; total enumeration was employed with 90 respondents. Frequency count, mean and rank was used to analyze the data. Findings revealed that there is a moderate implementation (2.91) along with governance, service delivery and respondents stated a poor implementation (1.98) of the essential new born care protocols. Problems encountered by health workers include time pressure due to an increased number of clients, uncooperative mothers, knowledge deficit about the protocols of the "Unang Yakap", and lack of related seminars and training. It can be concluded that there is a poor implementation of the existing program in other areas because they lack training and knowledge regarding the essential new born care.

Biography :

Fernan N. Torreno, Master of Arts in Nursing Major in Administration & Teaching in Nursing at Urdaneta City University, Philippines
Email:fernantoreno2@gmail.com