A randomized controlled trial to improve outcomes utilizing various warming techniques during cesarean birth.

Objective: To examine the effect of various warming methods during cesarean birth (CB) on maternal core body temperature, maternal hypothermia, and other maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Design: Three-arm randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Perinatal unit in a large community hospital in the mid-Atlantic United States.

Addressing adolescent pregnancy with legislation.

Adolescent pregnancy is a concern among many women's health practitioners. While it is practical and appropriate to work to prevent adolescent pregnancy by educating adolescents in health care clinics, schools and adolescent-friendly community-based organizations, suggesting and supporting legislative efforts to reduce adolescent pregnancy can help address the issue on an even larger scale. This article aims to help nurses better understand current legislation that addresses adolescent pregnancy, and to encourage support of future adolescent pregnancy prevention legislation.