Listening to Black Women's Perspectives of Birth Centers and Midwifery Care: Advocacy, Protection, and Empowerment.

Introduction: Black women in Texas experience high rates of adverse maternal outcomes that have been linked to health inequities and structural racism in the maternal care system. Birth centers and midwifery care are highlighted in the literature as contributing to improved perinatal care experiences and decreased adverse outcomes for Black women. However, compared with White women, Black women underuse birth centers and midwifery care.

On "Diagnosis and Management of Perinatal Depression".

Commentary and response on the subject of depression in the perinatal period.

An Integrative Review of the Perinatal Experiences of Black Women.

Objective: To synthesize the current body of evidence regarding the perinatal experiences of Black women.

Data Sources: The databases PubMed, the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), and Scopus were searched with the search terms "African American" (in PubMed), "Black" (in Scopus), or "Black" OR "African American" (in CINAHL) AND "pregnancy" AND "experiences."

Study Selection: Searches yielded 266 articles published between January 2015 and May 2021.

A qualitative descriptive study of the experiences of African American women in menopausal transition.

This study explores how African American women understand and experience menopausal transition. Data were collected from 14 women in individual interviews and a focus group of seven participants. Transcripts were analyzed using content analysis.

Teens' Experiences with Sexting: A Grounded Theory Study.

Introduction: To explore and understand the relationship between sexting behavior and adolescent mental health and well-being.

Method: A constructivist grounded theory study was conducted. Seventeen 18-22-year-old participants provided recollective and reflective accounts of sexting experiences throughout their adolescence.

Needs of Socioeconomically Diverse Fathers of Premature Hospitalized Infants: A Multicenter Study.

Background: To effectively practice true family-centered care (FCC) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting, a nurse needs to understand the perceptions and concerns of all fathers. Although research is emerging on fathers' perceptions and experiences, the samples of fathers represented are not from diverse socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic populations, which limit the findings' generalizability.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the needs of NICU fathers and whether these needs differed based on sociodemographic factors.

A Qualitative Description of Nurses' Experiences With Incorporating Research Into Practice.

Background: Baccalaureate-prepared nurses should be competent in accessing, evaluating, and implementing research evidence into nursing practice. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into nurses' experiences in accessing, evaluating, and implementing research into practice.

Method: Researchers conducted a qualitative descriptive study.

Multi-institutional Collaboration to Promote Undergraduate Clinical Research Nursing.

Clinical research nursing is distinct from nursing research and includes the coordination and delivery of care for patients enrolled in clinical research trials. An innovative elective in clinical research nursing was developed collaboratively by stakeholders at a university, research institute, and national organization to provide experiential learning for undergraduate nursing students. The multi-institutional collaborative process, course overview, and precepted experience are described.

Medications and Breastfeeding for Mothers With Chronic Illness.

Mothers with chronic illnesses are often discouraged from breastfeeding by health care professionals, most often because of use of medication and fear of adverse effects in the infant. Most medications taken by mothers are not contraindicated for breastfeeding. Understanding factors that affect transfer of medications into human milk can help providers give appropriate guidance to mothers with chronic illnesses who want to breastfeed.

African American Women's Breastfeeding Experiences: Cultural, Personal, and Political Voices.

The low rate of breastfeeding among African American women in the United States is a poorly understood, persistent disparity. Our purpose in this study was to gain an understanding of how African American women experience breastfeeding in the context of their day-to-day lives. The Sequential-Consensual Qualitative Design (SCQD), a 3-stage qualitative methodology aimed at exploring the cultural, personal, and political context of phenomena, was used to explore the experiences of African American women who felt successful with breastfeeding.

A grandmothers' tea: evaluation of a breastfeeding support intervention.

This study's purpose was to evaluate an intervention to facilitate grandmothers' knowledge and support of breastfeeding. A pilot study with a quasi-experimental two-group posttest design was used to evaluate whether the intervention made a difference in grandmothers' knowledge, attitudes, and intent to recommend breastfeeding. The 26 grandmothers in the intervention group attended A Grandmothers' Tea program; the 23 grandmothers in the control group received written information.

African American women and breastfeeding: an integrative literature review.

The purpose of this article is to present a review of literature regarding factors that influence breastfeeding intentions, initiation, and duration in the African American population. Research related to health disparities experienced by African Americans in the United States, as well as research regarding the protective benefits of breastfeeding for those specific health disparities, are also presented. Community and institutional interventions and promotional campaigns aimed at increasing initiation and duration of breastfeeding in the African American population are discussed.

The development and psychometric testing of the Supportive Needs of Adolescents Breastfeeding Scale.

Aim: To report the development and psychometric testing of the Supportive Needs of Adolescents Breastfeeding Scale.

Background: Nurses worldwide can influence adolescent mothers' decisions to initiate and continue breastfeeding through understanding their social support needs in the early postpartum. Review of the literature reveals a lack of instruments that measure adolescents' perceptions of supportive nursing behaviours when initiating breastfeeding.

The 2010 American Heart Association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care: an overview of the changes to pediatric basic and advanced life support.

The American Heart Association (AHA) has a strong commitment to implementing scientific research-based interventions for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care. This article presents the 2010 AHA major guideline changes to pediatric basic life support (BLS) and pediatric advanced life support (PALS) and the rationale for the changes. The following topics are covered in this article: (1) current understanding of cardiac arrest in the pediatric population, (2) major changes in pediatric BLS, and (3) major changes in PALS.