On the other hand 40 percent of participants criticized nurses as being labor-coping hinderers due to their failure to provide emotional support, comfort, adequate or correct information/advice, or because of failure to fulfill their technical duties. Among the helpful nursing actions cited, providing information and performing technical duties efficiently and effectively were considered as helping women to meet their needs for self-orientation. These behaviors reflect assumptions about the self as interdependent mode, which are promoted by women’s acts of accommodating and adjusting to the birthing situation. Nurses are also in a special position to provide supportive and advocacy measures for laboring women because they are immediately available. Nurses who performed these duties were considered as helping a woman to gain an appreciation
of her capabilities and to promote her comfort during labor. Most participants described these helpful nursing behaviors as making them feel AnShin, which means gaining the peace of mind that is a common spiritual need for Taiwanese people