A systematic review of implementing an elective labor induction policy.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of implementing hospital policies aimed at reducing elective labor induction and increasing spontaneous labor rates.

Data Sources: PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Dissertation Abstracts International.

Study Selection: Observational studies published from 2000 to 2010 were the only original studies from the past 20 years that met the review criteria.

Assuring ethical treatment of students as research participants.

Nurse educators are obligated to design protocols that include ethical sensitivity when conducting education research using students as participants. Because students are vulnerable to the power differential between them and faculty, the principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, veracity, and justice can help researchers make choices that are intended to preserve the trust and respect formed during this collegial relationship. This article presents the basic assumptions and examples of how these principles have been applied to nursing education research.

The relationship between nurse education level and patient safety: an integrative review.

The relationship between patient safety and nurse education level has implications for current and prospective nurses, hospital administrators, policy makers, and nurse educators. This integrative literature review assesses the current state of science on the topic during a 20-year period, using the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's Patient Safety Indicators to measure outcomes. Twenty-four studies of variable quality were included.

Interactive teaching: a concept analysis.

Interactive teaching is conceptually analyzed using the strategies of Walker and Avant to promote a common understanding of interactive teaching and to clearly explicate interactive teaching characteristics that will foster the construct validity of using interactive teaching in pedagogical research. In doing so, nurse researchers will be able to better understand and integrate interactive teaching into their research protocols, ultimately providing evidence for educators to use in determining the most effective teaching methods to incorporate into curricula. Interactive teaching is defined and examined using relevant sources; related concepts are analyzed and compared with these definitions.

Diagnosis and intervention for occiput posterior malposition.

Objectives: To evaluate diagnostic methods used to detect occiput posterior and to describe the efficacy of posturing to enhance rotation from occiput posterior to occiput anterior.

Data Sources: Keyword search using PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Review, and Dissertation Abstracts International.

Study Selection: Studies published from 1996 to 2006 (except one published in 1983) that focused on the use of ultrasonography versus digital vaginal examination to diagnose fetal position and maternal posturing to enhance rotation from occiput posterior to occiput anterior.

Development of a multilingual resource manual.

Providing culturally competent health care is a growing need as the population of culturally diverse women continues to rise. Compilation of a multilingual resource manual about maternal-child and women's health topics that can be used by health educators to provide care to non-English-speaking and limited English proficiency (LEP) clients was achieved to address this need. In this article, significant details of this process are described allowing the reader to produce a similar version of the manual.

What influences a woman to choose vaginal birth after cesarean?

Objective: To discover what influences women in the decision to deliver via vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).

Design: Descriptive and qualitative, influenced by principles of phenomenology and using content analysis to describe the lived experiences of women who choose VBAC.

Setting: Women were recruited from a postpartum unit in a hospital in the rural southeastern United States.