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.

Development and Validation of an Operational Model for Nursing Academic-Practice Partnerships.

Background: Several definitions and guiding principles for nursing academic-practice partnerships exist.

Problem: There remains a gap between academic-practice partnership definitions and practical operational models, thereby limiting schools of nursing ability to engage in productive partnerships. This article describes the development and validation of a novel Operational Model for Nursing Academic-Practice Partnerships.

Collaborating to Advance Health Equity for Families with Newborns Through Public-Private Partnerships.

This paper describes a health equity-focused partnership between an academic health center and a large metro public health department aimed at improving health care delivery in the postpartum period to reduce maternal-infant mortality. We describe our experience launching Family Connects Chicago at one of four Chicago pilot hospitals across the planning, implementation, and evaluation phases. Key sustainability factors are discussed including cooperative data-sharing, shared funding mechanisms, ongoing engagement strategies across teams, shared leadership, and interprofessional collaboration models.

Addressing health equity through a telehealth maternal-newborn home visit for nurse practitioner students.

This educational innovation describes the implementation and evaluation of a telehealth maternal-newborn home visit clinical experience for nurse practitioner students at an urban, private research university in the Midwest. The visits were conducted using the Family Connects evidence-based universal support program for families with newborns to evaluate each family's unique risks and to align their needs with available community resources. Students were prepared for the clinical experience through advanced practice didactic modules and simulation and then participated in the visits over a 2-week period.

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.

Leveraging a Successful Faculty Practice Model to Recruit and Retain Early-Career Nurse Faculty.

Background: The shortage of nursing faculty is well documented as are the challenges of attracting and retaining early-career faculty, in part, due to difficulties transitioning expert clinicians into faculty roles.

Problem: There is little guidance in the literature describing successful formal transition models.

Approach: An urban College of Nursing Faculty Practice (CON FP) underwent an operational redesign beginning in 2014, resulting in an intentional success: a pipeline for attracting and developing early-career faculty.

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.