Implementing the Role of Neonatal Assessment Nurse to Improve Skin-to-Skin Care and Breastfeeding Exclusivity Abstract Objective To improve rates of exclusive breastfeeding during the postpartum hospital stay by implementing a…
Pregnancy Length in the United States Versus European Countrieshttps://www.nwhjournal.org/article/S1751-4851(23)00053-3/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email…
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Rethinking Admission Location for Low Acuity Infants of 35 Weeks’ Gestation…
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COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among U.S. Infants Aged <6 Months — COVID-NET, 13 States, June 2021–August 2022 Summary What is already known about this topic? Infants aged <6 months, who are ineligible…
Evolving stillbirth rates among Black and White women in the United States, 1980–2020: A population-based study Background Given slowing secular declines and persistent racial disparities, stillbirth remains a major health…
Human Trafficking The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) supports ongoing culturally proficient educational training and awareness for nurses about human trafficking. Nurses should be cognizant of…
AJOG: Low-Dose aspirin use in pregnancy and risk or preterm birth: a Swedish register-based cohort study Background Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. Women who…
Increasing Disparities in Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths Reflect Societal Failures…
Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths: 2015–2020 OBJECTIVE Although the US infant mortality rate reached a record low in 2020, the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) rate increased from 2019. To understand…
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Source: Sacks, Alicia M. DNP, MBA, NNP-BC; Fitzgerald, Jennifer DNP, NNP-BC; Boerste, Laura A. BSN, MSN, RNC-NIC. Improving Safe Infant Sleep Compliance Through Implementation of a Safe Sleep Bundle. Advances…
Admission and Care Practices in United States Well Newborn Nurseries OBJECTIVES Late preterm and term infants comprise 97.3% of annual births in the United States. Admission criteria and the availability…
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When and where Date and time Friday, March 31, 2023 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Location Francis Tuttle Technology Center Rockwell Campus 12777 North Rockwell Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73142…
Register today for this upcoming live webinar Harnessing the Power of Team-Based Care to Improve Maternity Outcomes: Medicine and Midwifery as Partners in Care Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m….
Join us for a free webinar discussing shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma prevention in Children’s Hospitals. We’ll be discussing the Period of PURPLE Crying and how children’s hospitals have implemented…
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Registration for the January OPQIC Quarterly Meeting is now available at https://opqic.org/register/. The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom on January 17th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. An agenda…
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Virtual Safe Sleep Training February 7, 2023 9:00am – 12:00pm The training is free of charge to participants, but you must register. Space is limited. Click here to register! Who…
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Embracing Change: A Quality Improvement Project to Introduce Deferred Cord Clamping OBJECTIVES: The aim of this quality improvement (QI) project was to increase deferred cord clamping (DCC) rates in preterm…
Recommended Guideline for Uniform Reporting of Neonatal Resuscitation: The Neonatal Utstein Style Clinical research on neonatal resuscitation has accelerated over recent decades. However, an important methodologic limitation is that there…
Association of Primary Cesarean Delivery Rate With Dissemination of Nurse-Specific Cesarean Delivery Rates Strategies to safely reduce the rate of nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex (NTSV) cesarean deliveries have thus far…
Defining a Cesarean Delivery Rate for Optimizing Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes After the global cesarean delivery rate nearly doubled between 2000 and 2015, cesarean deliveries now account for nearly one…
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Progression to Severe Chronic Hypertension 5–7 Years After a Pregnancy With Mild Chronic Hypertension OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence of severe chronic hypertension (cHTN) within 5–7 years after a pregnancy…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Primary Cesarean Birth and Adverse Outcomes Among Low-Risk Nulliparous People OBJECTIVE: To compare trend of primary cesarean delivery rate and composite neonatal and maternal adverse…
Urine Drug Screening for Isolated Marijuana Use in Labor and Delivery Units Isolated marijuana use is frequently used as an indication for urine drug screening in labor and delivery…
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Using Longitudinally Linked Data to Measure Severe Maternal Morbidity Beyond the Birth Hospitalization in California Most studies of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) include only cases that occur during birth hospitalizations….
Attend the AWHONN Education Town Hall: Introducing the Revised Maternal Fetal Triage Index (MFTI) Program October 26, 2022 | 2 pm Eastern This town hall introduces an overview of the…
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CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022 Summary This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged…
Current Evidence to Guide Practice, Policy, and Research: Cannabis Use During Pregnancy In response to the rapidly evolving policy landscape regarding cannabis, it is important to consider trends in cannabis…
Human Trafficking The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) supports ongoing culturally proficient educational training and awareness for nurses about human trafficking. Nurses should be cognizant of…
Perinatal Care (PC) Core Measures: Updates for 2022 Wednesday, December 7, 2022 12:00 – 1:30 pm (ET) Chris Walas, MSN, RN Managing Project Director, Clinical Department of Quality Measurement The…
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