Providers' Reports of Environmental Conditions and Resources at Births in the United States.

Environmental conditions and resources that may influence provider's behaviors have been investigated in birth environments focusing on location rather than conditions and available resources. Using a descriptive, cross sectional design, we surveyed a random sample of certified nurse-midwives (CNMs), obstetricians, family practice physicians, and certified professional midwives (CPMs) to describe conditions, resources, and workforce present during U.S.

Variables That Influence US Midwife and Physician Management of the Third Stage of Labor.

Introduction: Midwives and physicians incorporate their knowledge, experiences, and other variables in making clinical decisions. Variations in the management of the third stage of labor may be a result of variables that influence providers' decision making. The purpose of this study was to describe variables that influence US midwives' and physicians' management of the third stage of labor.

US Physician and Midwife Adherence to Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor International Recommendations.

Introduction: The prevalence of postpartum hemorrhage has increased in the United States despite the international promotion of active management of the third stage of labor. Adherence to the international recommendations in the United States is unclear. It is also not known how the components of active management are related to other practices that may be used during the third stage of labor.

Junior research track faculty in U.S. schools of nursing: Resources and expectations.

Background: Concerns about U.S. nursing research workforce preparation and success in the research arena require information about support mechanisms and readiness because the first research position is key to researcher retention and success.

An exploration of how midwives and physicians manage the third stage of labor in the United States.

Introduction: Care of the woman during the third stage of labor is a critical component of good patient outcomes. The type and extent of activities used in the United States, including those suggested for active management of the third stage of labor, are unknown. This study obtained preliminary data for the development of a national study of interventions used by US birth attendants during the third stage of labor, work that will ultimately lead to a study examining links between activities and outcomes.

Defining and describing capacity issues in U.S. Doctor of Nursing Practice programs.

Recent calls to expand the number of U.S. Doctors of Nursing Practice (DNPs) raises questions about programs' capacities, content and requirements, and their ability to expand.

Operating room team members' views of workload, case difficulty, and nonroutine events.

Interventions such as mandatory "time-outs" have contributed to intraoperative safety but improvements are still necessary. We present data provided by 3 professions always present in the intraoperative setting that suggest next steps in the quest for improvements. We describe the differences and similarities in operating room (OR) nurses', anesthesia providers', and surgeons' beliefs about team function, case difficulty, nonroutine event (NRE), and error causation using a qualitative design at 3 Veterans' Administration hospitals.

Leadership in doctoral nursing research programs.

The expansion of U.S. doctoral nursing research programs and transitions based on demographic distribution of the nursing academic workforce raises questions about the preparation for leadership transition planning.

Defining and describing capacity issues in US doctoral nursing research programs.

The expansion of US doctoral research programs raises questions about mentorship capacity, program quality, and decisions about future expansion. To describe capacity issues and, when possible, compare findings to those of an earlier study, a survey of US nursing research doctoral programs (n = 105) was conducted in 2008. The response rate was 84.