The Space in the Middle: Attitudes of Women's Health and Neonatal Nurses in the United States about Abortion.

Introduction: Despite playing an integral part in sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion care, nurses are rarely the focus of research regarding their attitudes about abortion.

Methods: A sample of 1,820 nurse members of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses were surveyed about their demographic and professional backgrounds, religious beliefs, and abortion attitudes. Scores on the Abortion Attitudes Scale were analyzed categorically and trichotomized in multinomial regression analyses.

Creating and sustaining a military women's Health Research Interest Group.

In 2008, four doctorate military nurse scientists representing the triservices (Army, Navy, and Air Force) identified a common interest in the health and care of all women in the armed forces. For 7 years, the team's shared vision to improve servicewomen's health inspired them to commit to a rigorous schedule of planning, developing, and implementing an innovative program that has the capability of advancing scientific knowledge and influencing health policy and practice through research. The ultimate goal of the Military Women's Health Research Interest Group (MWHRIG) is to support military clinicians and leaders in making evidence-based practice and policy decisions.

Dr. Ruth lubic, a timeliness and tireless visionary for childbearing families.

The author describes her interview with Dr. Ruth Lubic, a visionary in the field of maternal-child nursing and discusses an early publication of Dr. Lubic's in the Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Neonatal Nursing.

A selective review of maternal sleep characteristics in the postpartum period.

Objective: To determine the current knowledge of postpartum women's sleep patterns, sleep disturbances, consequences of sleep disturbances, and known strategies for prevention in order to provide best practice recommendations for health care providers.

Data Sources: A literature search from 1969 through February 2008 was conducted using the CINHL, Index of Allied Health Literature, Ovid, PsycINFO, and PubMed electronic databases in addition to reference lists from selected articles and other key references. Search terms included sleep, postpartum, sleep deprivation, and sleep disturbance.

The relationship between sleep characteristics and fatigue in healthy postpartum women.

Background: Postpartum sleep is a difficult and complicated concept to measure owing to the intrusive nature of research at a sensitive and private time for new families. Nurses often find themselves advising mothers on ways to improve sleep and reduce fatigue based on teachings that are not evidence based. The purpose of this secondary analysis of a larger study of postpartum fatigue patterns was to examine the relationship between sleep characteristics and postpartum fatigue during the first 6 weeks after delivery.

Postpartum fatigue in the active-duty military woman.

Objective: (a) To describe fatigue levels in military active-duty women, (b) to describe the relationship among selected predictor variables of fatigue, and (c) to examine the relationship between predictor variables, fatigue levels, and performance (as measured by functional status) after childbirth.

Design: Based on the Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms, a longitudinal, prospective design.

Setting: A large military medical facility in the southwest United States.

Screening for postpartum depression in military women with the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale.

Each year, approximately 16,000 women on active duty in the U.S. military experience the birth of a child.