Background: Maternal morbidity and mortality remain unacceptably high in developing countries. Behind every maternal death, a lot of women suffered from acute and chronic obstetric complications. Women who survive severe acute maternal morbidities/near miss have many characteristics in common with maternal death events particularly on risk factors. The aim: Was to assess nurse's knowledge about maternal near-miss cases at Woman'

Background: Clinical audit is "a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change". Objectives: (1) Audit on the current postoperative nursing care provided to women who had Cesarean Section at woman's health hospital, Assuit.(2)Assess the hospital based rate of Cesarean Section patients and method: A criterion based audit research design was conducted at postpartum ward from February 2016 to July 2016, A total of 618 post cesarean women in preorientation period and 50 women in post orientation period were recruited. Interview questionnaire schedule for mothers and nurses(11) was carried out and observational checklist was used to collect the data. Results: there was significant improvement related to monitoring vital signs, palpating fundus and surgical site care.Conclusion: There was a big gap between the current and the ideal practices of care. The total number of all deliveries was 13115. The number of cesarean sections only was 6064 (46.2%). Recommendations: Increasing number of nursing staff, Nurses in post natal unit should have training courses, qualified staff should be recruited, further research studies are needed.

Background: Women all over the world experience urinary incontinence, which could be physically or mentally upsetting as well as burdensome for the person and society especially during pregnancy. Aim: the study aimed to evaluate the effect of self-acupressure on k3 point on urinary leakage during pregnancy. Design: Quasi experimental research design was utilized to conduct the current study. Setting: It was conducted at Damnahur Medical National Institute, in the Obstetrics and Gynecology department. Sample: purposive sample of 100 pregnant women. Tools: Tool I: Structured interviewing questionnaire Tool II: RUIS Questionnaire Results: There was statistically significant difference between pre & post intervention regarding total score of RUIS questionnaire. Conclusion: Self acupressure on k3 point was effective in relieving severity of urinary leakage during pregnancy. Recommendations: Training Program for nurses about how to use K3 point self-Acupressure as safe, nonaggressive nursing intervention that consumes little time without resorting to pharmacological methods for pregnant women complaining from urinary leakage.