Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
Open Access

The Role of Community Health Nurses and Relationships Solving the Maternal-infant Mortality Crisis

Patricia Martin^*

Unity Health Care, Minnesota Avenue Health Center, 3924 Minnesota Avenue, NE Washington DC, USA

Received Date: Nov 30, 2019 / Accepted Date: Jan 24, 2020 / Published Date: Jan 31, 2020

Citation: © Martin P 2020 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedDOI: 10.4172/2471-9846.1000236

Copyright: © 2020 Martin P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

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The following essay shares a reflection about how a community health nurse forged a bond with a family over the course of decades. The author explores whether the therapeutic benefit of the 17-hydroxyprogesterone was indeed due to the medication or the caring relationship between nurse and patient fostered by weekly visits together.

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