Therapeutic Communication Midwife Practice Independently On Maternal Stage I In Covid-19 Era

Abstract

Communication about health care between Midwives and patients during the pandemic was less effective caused
of fears. The pandemic lead to a sense of worry for the medical personnel will be contracting the virus COVID19 caused not to be told of the patient in providing information about the diseases suffered. The absence of
responsibility that must be implemented is expected to create communication therapeutic effective between the
midwife and the patient. In this study the primary data was obtained through interviews conducted by the
researcher to midwives who have experience working in the practice of midwives independently at least 5 years.
Sample collection techniques in this research using non-probability in this research sampling with purposive
sampling. Informants in this study are 5 people midwife independent practice to provide care on maternal stage 1.
Data Analysis technique in this research is done at the time of data collection in progress and after completion of
data collection in a particular period. Data or information that has been obtained, was noted or recorded by using
radio cassette and made transcripts. The results of this research showed that the process of communication
therapeutic consists of 4 phases, namely the phase of the pre-interaction phase,orientation, working phase and
termination phase. How to provide therapeutic communication by approaching, providing confidence, listening to
the mother's problems, providing motivation and solutions to the mother's problems to create a sense of trust on
maternal stage I. The presence of the obstacles encountered when providing therapeutic communication in
maternal stage I during the pandemic during the pandemic midwives have limitations in carrying out therapeutic
communication due to precautions against the transmission of COVID-19.