Results: Sixty percent of the participants
reported having received helpful nursing behaviors only; 38 percent reported having received
both helpful and unhelpful nursing behaviors. Helpful labor-coping measures that
were valued by participants included performing roles of emotional support providers,
comforters, information/advice providers, professional technical skills providers, and advocates.
Forty percent of the participants reported that some nurses had hindered their laborcoping
ability by failing to provide emotional support, comfort measures, adequate or
correct information/advice, or to perform technical duties. C