Preparing Leaders in Maternal-Child Health Nursing.

Objective: To describe leadership and patient outcomes from an international leadership development program undertaken by a nursing organization (Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing) in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Corporate Contributions to strengthen the leadership base of maternal-child bedside nurses.

Design: Pretest/posttest design with no control group program evaluation.

Setting: Health care facilities, academic institutions, and public health clinics.

Family child care providers' compliance with state physical activity regulations, Delaware Child Care Provider Survey, 2011.

Introduction: Delaware is one state that has implemented comprehensive child care regulations to foster healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors of young children. This study describes the Delaware family child care environment and providers' knowledge of and compliance with physical activity regulations. We analyzed the data to determine characteristics associated with predictors of knowledge of and compliance with these regulations.

Consistency of compliance with nutrition-related regulations among Delaware child care centers.

Background: As more calls are made in the literature for nutrition interventions to be delivered in child care settings, research on the implementation of these interventions becomes more important. This study examined compliance with Delaware's regulations related to nutrition in child care settings, which are designed to improve the nutrition-related environment in these settings.

Methods: A stratified random sample of licensed child care centers (n=233) was created from the total population of eligible centers in Delaware (N=450).