Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Postpartum Nurse Home Visit Service to Improve Health Equity.

Objective: To describe how a college of nursing and urban academic medical center partnered with the local health department to plan, implement, and evaluate a universal nurse home visit service to improve health equity in the postpartum period.

Design: Evidence-based practice.

Setting/local Problem: Wide health disparity in rates of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality in Chicago, Illinois.

Concerns of Prelicensure Nursing Students Before a Maternal-Newborn Clinical Rotation.

Objective: To describe the concerns of prelicensure nursing students before their clinical rotation in the maternal-newborn setting.

Design: Qualitative descriptive design with one open-ended survey question.

Setting/problem: A private U.

Providing a Safe Haven: Staff Response to a Simulated Infant Relinquishment in the Emergency Department.

Every state in the United States has established laws that allow an unharmed newborn to be relinquished to personnel in a safe haven, such as hospital emergency departments, without legal penalty to the parents. These Safe Haven, Baby Moses, or Safe Surrender laws are in place so that mothers in crisis can safely and legally relinquish their babies at a designated location where they can be protected and given medical care until a permanent home can be found. It is important for health care professionals to know about and understand their state's law and how to respond should an infant be surrendered at their facility.

Meeting the needs of the postpartum woman with epilepsy.

Although pregnancy and postpartum are times of emotional and physical change for all women, women with epilepsy have additional concerns and face special challenges. This article describes the nursing care for this special population to help the clinical nurse provide for the safety of these women and their infants. A multidisciplinary approach is essential, and families need to be included in the care planning.