Blog 8: Research and Working EQ

1. What is your working EQ?

• My working essential question is, How can a Labor and Delivery Nurse ensure a successful delivery? 

2. Possible answers to my working EQ are..

• Labor and Delivery Nurses must be able provide emotional support, care, comfort, and fulfill the needs of the patient. 
• Labor and Delivery Nurses must be able to cope, move quick, understand, and handle stress in any time, type of situation, and current condition the patient is in, with the process of delivering. 
• Education of the woman's body before, during, and after birth is essential to the Labor and Delivery Nurse in order to understand, relate, and advance their care to the woman in need. 

3. What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ? 

• Many articles and journals I have read and researched, all had one thing in common to state, and that was to provide the patient with emotional care and support. But the one article that I have found most important and useful is, "Lesson 5: Special Situations in Labor and Delivery" written by the Medical Education Division, Bookside Associates, Ltd. This article has helped me shape and answer my essential question by not only providing me with information on nursing, but the woman's bodily response to labor and delivery. 

4. Who is your mentor, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ? 

• My mentor is Deborah Nakielski, CNM., and what I am doing right now, relates to my working essential question by understanding the woman's perspective on birth.