Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
June 18, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
...is up! Go check it out at Giving Birth with Confidence. What a PHENOMENAL collection of contributions about the moments, hours, and days after birth. Each of our Blog Carnivals has vastly surpassed my own expectations. I hope you'll agree.
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June 15, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
I am impressed and surprisingly moved by this video of a NICU evacuation drill at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Drills like these are so important for patient safety. As the hospital CEO points out in his blog, there is a dearth of literature on NICU evacuations".
June 12, 2010 | by: Jeannette T Crenshaw, DNP, RN, IBCLC, NEA-BC, FAAN, LCCE, FACCE
[Editor's note: This is a guest post from former Lamaze International President, Jeannette Crenshaw. When Jeannette told me about the video she reviews in this post, I knew I wanted to highlight it as part of the Sixth Healthy Birth Blog Carnival. I recall one birth I attended as a midwife, I
June 10, 2010 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, hospital noise has become problematic and researchers, along with some hospital administrators, are starting to listen. From The Boston Globe article: In 2005, a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University led by the engineers
May 19, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Many readers of this blog follow our Understanding Research series developed by our very own Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE. Here's another learning resource for those interested in deepening their understanding of the fundamentals of evidence-based healthcare.Consumers United for Evidence-Based Healthcare, a
May 16, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
Qualitative research generally describes and sometimes explains. It doesnt try to prove anything. Because qualitative research is more interested in depth, the sample sizes tend to be much smaller. Once youve determined that what you have here is an original piece of quantitative research and you
May 12, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
Quantitative research seeks to prove something through experimentation and statistics. Once youve determined that what you have here is an original piece of quantitative research and youve already considered the basic questions here, youre ready for the specific questions
May 09, 2010 | by: Henci Goer, BA
Last August, I argued against ACOGs current position on inducing labor with misoprostol, which is that misoprostol is safe when used appropriately (p. 387), by which ACOG means provided it is used in doses no greater than 50 micrograms in women with an unscarred uterus. In March, I started work
May 05, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
When most people think of reading research, they think of reading an original research study. And there are plenty of those published in journals all the time. Original research generally falls into two main categories: quantitative research and qualititative research. Its really too bad the terms
April 27, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the leading nonprofit organization working to accelerate change in healthcare, has been in the news this month because its CEO, Donald Berwick, was recently nominated to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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