Write 10 page essay on the topic Cesarean Section Delivery: The Role of the Nurse in Stemming the Epidemic of Elective C-Section Surgery in the United States.onounce that the number of women requestin

Write 10 page essay on the topic Cesarean Section Delivery: The Role of the Nurse in Stemming the Epidemic of Elective C-Section Surgery in the United States.

onounce that the number of women requesting cesarean sections in the absence of clinical indications is almost zero, however obstetricians consider maternal request a major factor in driving the cesarean rate upward. (Jane J. Weaver et al., 2007). Chris McCourt et al., (2007) also accede to the above findings,

adding further that a range of personal and societal reasons, including fear of labor/delivery and perceived inadequacy of care, are the underlying cause behind many pregnant women’s request for cesarean section surgery. (Chris McCourt et al., 2007) Since quite a long time, the responsibility of obtaining a mother’s “request” for cesarean surgery has been placed on the nursing community. Because of the position of the nursing community with respect to interaction with both patients and the doctors, and the trust that their interaction elicits in the patients, nurses were and are able to draw out such “requests” from pregnant women with less difficulty. Now scores of pregnant women have started insisting on cesarean surgery not only as a matter of choice but also as a matter of right. The positive and negative factors of both vaginal and cesarean section delivery are yet to be understood in full almost by both the mothers and medical community. But the “epidemic” of elective C-section surgery has spread greatly.

Although the dictum, ‘cesarean follows cesarean’ has begun to fade slowly over the last three decades, the effectiveness of vaginal delivery is yet to be understood in its entirety. W. Benson Harer’s view, which he propounded in 1997, that there is a very slow decrease in the rate of cesarean section delivery is still prevailing. The increase in percentage of VBAC from 3% in 1981 to 27.4% in 1997 was not surpassed, as the total increase of cesarean in US was 20.8%. (Benson Harer Jr., 2002). The Mortality Morbidity Weekly Report1 (MMWR) issued from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also agree with these findings for