Implementing the Role of Neonatal Assessment Nurse to Improve Skin-to-Skin Care and Breastfeeding Exclusivity.

Objective: To improve rates of exclusive breastfeeding during the postpartum hospital stay by implementing a new role of dedicated neonatal assessment nurse (NAN), whose primary function was neonatal care beginning immediately after birth.

Design: Quality improvement project with plan-do-study-act using evidence-based guidelines for implementing the NAN role.

Setting/local Problem: Labor and delivery department of a tertiary care teaching hospital in the southeastern United States; breastfeeding exclusivity rates at this hospital were in the range of 50%.

A pragmatic descriptive study of rewarming the newborn after the first bath.

Objectives: To evaluate two methods of rewarming newborns after the first bath: radiant rewarming and skin-to-skin maternal newborn contact.

Design: A nonrandomized clinical trial in which mothers chose the rewarming method, with 200 participants in the skin-to-skin rewarming group (experimental condition), and 200 in the radiant rewarming group (control).

Setting: A teaching hospital in the Southeast United States.