HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN CHILDBIRTH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: WHAT OBSTETRIC NURSING HAS TO DO

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v25i0.73148

Keywords:

Human Rights, Infections by Coronavirus, Obstetric Nursing, Women’s Rights, Unified Health System.

Abstract

Objective: This release aims to promote the reflection of obstetric nurses so that they continue to fight to guarantee the rights of women and their babies amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Development: This paper draws the attention to the violation of the Human Rights of women, their children, and obstetric nurses and midwives, mainly due to the impact of the pandemic. It endorses the Official Statement of the International Confederation of the Midwives named “Women’s Rights in Childbirth Must be Upheld During the Coronavirus Pandemic”, and evokes Obstetric Nursing to a solidary work guided by social justice, built and announced by the bodies and voices of those who provide care and those who receive it.
Final Considerations: We signal the political and social commitment to democracy as a process that legitimizes citizenship in a special field of interest: women’s life and health, based on the constitutional law and on the ethical challenges that are imposed by the pandemic.

Author Biographies

Kleyde Ventura de Souza, Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Professora Associada da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Departamento Materno Infantil e de Saúde Pública.

Søndre Schneck, Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Enfermeiro Obstétrico. Doutor em Ciências. Professor Adjunto I no Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. 

Érica Dumont Pena, Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Enfermeira. Doutora em Educação. Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil e Saúde Pública da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Elysângela Dittz Duarte, Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Enfermeira. Doutora em Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e estudo Pós-doutoral na School of Nursing/UNC-Chapel Hill. Chefe do Departamento de Enfermagem Materno Infantil e Saúde Pública e Professor Associado 2 da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Valdecyr Herdy Alves, Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Enfermeiro Obstétrico. Doutor em Enfermagem. Professor Titular da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

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Published

2020-05-20

How to Cite

Souza, K. V. de, Schneck, S., Pena, Érica D., Duarte, E. D., & Alves, V. H. (2020). HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN CHILDBIRTH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: WHAT OBSTETRIC NURSING HAS TO DO. Cogitare Enfermagem, 25. https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v25i0.73148

Issue

Vol. 25 (2020)

Section

Especial Covid-19

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