The SUCCESS program for smoking cessation for pregnant women.

The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) developed an evidence-based practice program, Setting Universal Cessation Counseling Education and Screening Standards (SUCCESS), to educate nurses and other health care practitioners about smoking cessation interventions, increase the number of practitioners providing smoking cessation interventions, and deliver a smoking cessation intervention program to childbearing women who smoke. The development, implementation, and outcomes of the SUCCESS program are described.

Smoking cessation counseling for pregnant women who smoke: scientific basis for practice for AWHONN's SUCCESS project.

Objectives: To review the literature addressing smoking cessation in pregnant women. To develop the project protocol for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurse's (AWHONN) 6th research-based practice project titled "Setting Universal Cessation Counseling, Education and Screening Standards (SUCCESS): Nursing Care of Pregnant Women Who Smoke." To evaluate the potential of systematic integration of this protocol in primary care settings in which women seek care at the preconception, pregnant, or postpartum stages.

Implementing evidence-based practice: reducing risk for low birth weight through pregnancy smoking cessation.

In 1989, the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) developed a research utilization program to integrate evidence into practice areas where there were large discrepancies between research evidence and clinical practice. The current program, renamed Research-Based Practice (RBP), uses translational research methods to build from evidence such as that in the Cochrane database and to create protocols for integration of research directly into clinical practice. This article describes the development of the sixth project (RBP6), in which an evidence-based protocol to address smoking in pregnancy was integrated into clinical practice.

Cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort: the scientific basis for practice.

Objective: To review and organize the science related to cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort for the fifth research-based practice project of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.

Data Sources: Computerized searches in CINAHL, MEDLINE, and the Cochrane Library, as well as hand searches of cited references. Keywords included cyclic pelvic pain, comfort, pain guidelines, and dysmenorrhea.