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Many Nurses Lack Knowledge of Health Risks for New Mothers, Study Finds

  • August 18, 2017

With tens of thousands of new mothers in the U.S. nearly dying from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes every year, and up to 900 actually dying, health officials are scrambling to find ways to slash these sobering numbers. What’s shocking is that 46 percent of postpartum nurses surveyed didn’t even know that the U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. ProPublica reports that many nurses lack the knowledge needed to inform new moms about...