The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to investigate the influential factors of student satisfaction with online digital audio-visual flipped classroom learning. A total of 103 students enrolling in the two-credit compulsory code course participated in this flipped classroom research. Descriptive data analysis and grey relational analysis demonstrated that student respondents were most satisfied with repeated practice (1st), followed immediately by peer learning (2nd), and active learning (3rd). In terms of qualitative data, three themes emerged from the focus group analysis, including: improving independent learning, enhancing peer learning, and increasing teacher–student interaction. The flipped classroom model provided opportunities for students to strengthen their self-directed learning capabilities, improved students’ learning motivation, and to be a team player among third-year nursing students. The results were consistent with the actual circumstance. The results integrated descriptive data, the mathematic model, and interviews to validate the accuracy and rationality of the data. According to this study, an online digital audio-visual flipped classroom could improve student independent learning and enhance peer communication. The results provide an accurate assessment tool suitable for Taiwanese nursing students’ flipped classroom model learning experience.

The purpose of this study was to explore how traditional ritual practices are incorporated into the context of contemporary healthcare. An ethnographic study was conducted, using observations and interviews with 27 first-time mothers and 3 nurses at a postpartum nursing center in Taipei, Taiwan. Nursing routines, policies and care provision at the center affected the way traditional ritual practices were conducted. New mothers in this study constructed their everyday activities at the center by incorporating and modifying the ritual practices inside and outside the postpartum nursing center setting. Social changes have an influence on traditional postpartum ritual practices so a postpartum nursing center becomes a choice for postpartum women. Thus, health care professionals should value their own functions and roles at the postpartum nursing center since the new mothers regard them as the primary support resource to help them recover from giving birth. Therefore, they need to re-examine their practices from the postpartum women's perspective to provide better support and sensitive care to postpartum women and their families.