Background: Pregnancy is a natural and physiological process. During the process, women will get some physiological, psychological, and social changes which cause discomfort. Techniques of yogic breathing are able to control respiration and mind. The mechanism of physical change is started by conscious relaxation which happens systematically in the body, which then leads into a deeper relaxation. The study intends to examine the effectiveness of yogic breathing to comfort level of pregnant mothers in first trimester.Methods: The study is a quantitative research with quasi experimental design. It employs pre-test and post-test without control group. The samples are 42 pregnant mothers who were selected by purposive sampling technique which is a type of non-probability sampling. The instrument for measuring comfort level was adopted from GCQ (General Comfort Questionnaire). For the analysis of statistical data, McNemar Test is used.Results: The univariate analysis shows proportional data of respondents’ comfort level frequency before the intervention of yogic breathing was given. Most of the respondents (64.3%) were in discomfort category level of their first trimester pregnancy. Meanwhile, the comfort level after getting yogic breathing intervention is increased. Most of the respondents (66.7%) are in comfort level toward their first trimester pregnancy. From bivariate analysis, the researchers obtained difference in the comfort level proportion of first trimester pregnant mothers before and after getting yogic breathing intervention, with p value 0.007.Conclusions: The study suggests that yogic breathing should be continued as an applied intervention in nursing service especially for pregnant mothers who get discomfort within first trimester.

The pregnancy period in a woman's body experiences many changes or adaptations due to fetal growth needs. Various adaptations during pregnancy are adaptations of physiology to the digestive system, endocrine system and adaptations of psychology. Nausea vomiting are normal in pregnancy which occurs around 50-90 % of pregnant women experience nausea in the first trimester. Nausea vomiting in pregnant women will be better if it is able to overcome the problem of nausea in early pregnancy by using non-pharmacological supplementary therapy. Nonpharmacological therapy is non-instructive, non-invasive, inexpensive, simple, effective, and without adverse side effects. Non-pharmacological therapy can be done by giving aromatherapy. The purpose of this study is to prove the comparison between the lemon, ginger and combination aromatherapy inhalation intervention to decrease nausea and vomiting in pregnant women in the first trimester. The design of this study used Quasi Experiment Pre-Post Test Design. The number of research samples for each group is 10 respondents.The purposive sampling research technique.The measuring instrument used a standard questionnaireRhodes INVR.Data analysis using Wilcoxon test and Kruskal Wallis test. The results showed that there were differences in the Mean rank before and after aromatherapy lemon inhalation interventions, inhalation of ginger aromatherapy, and combination against the frequency of nausea vomiting in pregnant women in the first trimester. The highest pre-post mean rank is the combination of aromatherapy inhalation interventions is 17,60 and post 18.20. It can be concluded that combination intervention is more effective in reducing nausea and vomiting in first trimester pregnant women.

Introduction: Labor pain is a challenging issue for nurses designing intervention protocols. Touch and massage therapy is one of non-pharmacology approaches that they could do during labor process. The study was conducted to assess the effectiveness in reducing pain intensity scale on the labor during first stage of active phase. Methods: A quasi-experimental approach was conducted and a purposive sampling technique was used to recruit 56 women who expected to have normal childbirth at a public hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. They randomly assigned to either received touch and massage intervention (experiment) or not (control). The labor pain intensity was using Verbal Description Scale (VDS) with descriptive statistics, paired, and independent t-test. Results: The result showed that touch and massage therapy had a significant impact on the experimental group (tcalI 2.839, p<0.05). A significant difference also showed among the experimental dan control group during pre-test (tcalI 1.817, p>0.05) and post-test (tcalI 10.77, p<0.05). The study found that a combination of touch and massage therapy was effective to reduce labor pain during active stage. Conclusions: Touch and massage therapy can reduce labor pain intensity, and at the same time serve as closeness and encouragement during the first stage of active phase. It is a cost-effective nursing intervention and can positively influence the quality of women’s birth experiences.

In Cirebon District the percentage of women giving birth was helped by health workers as much as 91.7%, while the remaining 8.3% was helped by health workers. In Sumber Lor, Babakan, the number of women giving birth in 2016 was 121 people. The results of interviews with traditional birth attendants that women were helped in 2016 amounted to 6 people. This study aims to explore the meaning and meaning of the mother's experience giving birth helped by the paraji shaman in Sumber Lor Village, Babakan Sub-district, Cirebon District. This study uses a phenomenological study approach. Subjects in this study were 7 women who gave birth assisted by a traditional birth attendant. Traditional birth attendant 2 and husband of 6 people as supporting participants. The results obtained in the study of maternal experience were helped by the paraji shaman in the village of Sumber Lor, Babakan Subdistrict, Cirebon Regency, which is the reason that some people still choose the paraji shaman as their birth attendant with a paraji dukun because these women want labor done at home (homebirth), The other is the cause of some people who still want to be helped by a traditional birth attendant because they feel comfortable giving birth by a traditional birth attendant, and the paraji shaman does a complete and caring service until the mother recovers and the baby's belly button is cured. Family support is one of the factors why maternity is assisted by traditional birth attendants, patience of traditional birth attendants when helping, and trust in the shaman, the assumption of the community to the midwife and midwife is the same as helping mothers give birth. The simple thinking of the community, which is important to survive during childbirth, makes them believe and believe in the paraji shaman and the cheap and complete costs are also a motivation for mothers who give birth.

The COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on nursing students’ academic and clinical performance. Nursing institutions have provided remote learning to continue the learning process. However, students have met several obstacles that caused a decrease in the quality of learning. Remote learning for education requires the support of information and communication technology. However, studies related to how the COVID-19 pandemic affected nursing education in Indonesia are still rarely done. Accordingly, this study was conducted to evaluate the implementation of remote learning for nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 331 members of the Association of Indonesian Nurse Education Center (AINEC). The instrument used was the Guidelines of Filling Out Remote Learning. The results showed that 51% of the study programs implemented remote learning, while 69% of the regulations for remote learning were created by rectors. The most common teaching materials were visual, text, and audio-visual content. These materials were distributed through WhatsApp Group, Learning Management System (LMS), and video conference. To support the process of remote learning, nursing institutions need to improve information technology staff and cooperate agreement with other institutions. Overall, the remote learning process needs to be further improved to increase the students’ learning quality.