Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
“A Mother Makes a Better Nurse”: A Phenomenological Study of Neonatal Nurses' Readiness Recalibration Following Postpartum Return to Work
Originally published 2025-11-02 · Journal of Nursing Management
Wiley · DOI 10.1155/jonm/9095340 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Explores professional-readiness recalibration and how maternal experience can change priorities and perceived empathy, without treating motherhood as a requirement for good nursing.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Can a return plan recognize new strengths as well as the support someone needs?
Explores professional-readiness recalibration and how maternal experience can change priorities and perceived empathy, without treating motherhood as a requirement for good nursing.
Study context
17 neonatal nurses in China who returned to work within 1–12 months postpartum.
Age / stage: Adult mothers one to twelve months postpartum.
Read with three questions
- How did participants describe skill readjustment and pre-return anxiety?
- What did maternal identity change about their reported approach to families?
- Which institutional gaps limited a successful transition?
Keep the limits in view
A purposive qualitative sample records perceived professional changes, not measured superiority or patient outcomes; the title’s claim must not imply that non-mothers are lesser nurses.
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Yuan Li; Zongrong Zhou; Mei Rosemary Fu; Jun Tang; Hanmei Peng; Liyu Zhu; Chuanya Huang; Qiong Chen; Yanling Hu (2025). “A Mother Makes a Better Nurse”: A Phenomenological Study of Neonatal Nurses' Readiness Recalibration Following Postpartum Return to Work Journal of Nursing Management. https://doi.org/10.1155/jonm/9095340
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