Doing an interview with an OB nurse

[tammikins]

Hello, I've posted this in the OBGYN section and I'm not getting much response there so I'm thinking I'll try here... Maybe people are more willing to help here.

Anyways, I'm a nursing student in my second year. I'm writing a paper and for this paper I have to interview an OB nurse about her experience with prenatal substance abusers and their families (I'm just focusing on the mothers and their families in this paper- not the babies). I was hoping someone (or several someones ) on here could answer a few questions for me in some detail. Thank you in advance, your help is EXTREMELY appraciated.

~Tanya

Interview Questions:

• Please tell me about how many years experience you have in OB.

• How often do you deal with prenatal substance abusers in your practice?

• When pregnant drug users come to your ward, is it common for them to have family members with them?

• Does your hospital have pre-set procedures for nurses handling prenatal substance abusers? If yes, what are they and do you find these policies useful in your practice?

• Please tell me about concerns that women who use drugs during pregnancy voice while on your unit.

• Please tell me about communication strategies you use when talking to such patients and their families when they are present.

• Please tell me about the nursing interventions (not so much physiological, more psychosocial) that you implement to help substance abusers prenatally.

• What are nursing interventions that you implement to help the substance abuser's family?

• Which approach to treatment do you think is more practical; a woman-centered approach where the substance abuser makes all decision (this allows empowerment of the woman), or a family-centered approach where the substance abuser's family participates in education and prenatal care?
  
• Is there anything else you wish to add on the topic of prenatal substance abuse?