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Missed Nursing Care During Labor and Birth and Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding During Hospitalization for Childbirth.

MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs

June 2021

Dr. Kathleen Rice Simpson is a Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist (Volunteer), Mercy Hospital Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Simpson can be reached via email at Dr. Audrey Lyndon is a Professor and Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York, NY. Dr. Joanne Spetz is a Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA. Dr. Caryl L. Gay is a Research Specialist, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, CA. Dr. Gay L. Landstrom is the System Chief Nursing Officer, Trinity Health, Livonia, MI.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine associations between missed nursing care and nurse staffing during labor and birth, and exclusive breast milk feeding at hospital discharge.

Study Design And Methods: Labor and birth nurses in three states were surveyed about missed nursing care and their maternity units' adherence to the AWHONN (2010) nurse staffing guidelines for care during labor and birth, using the Perinatal Misscare Survey. Nursing responses were aggregated to the hospital level and estimated associations between missed nursing care, nurse staffing, and hospitals' exclusive breast milk feeding rates were measured using The Joint Commission's Perinatal Care Measure (PC-05).

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Labor Nurses' Views of Their Influence on Cesarean Birth.

MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs

August 2017

Kathleen Rice Simpson is a Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist (Volunteer), Mercy Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. The author can be reached via e-mail at Audrey Lyndon is an Associate Professor & Vice Chair for Academic Personnel, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, CA. Kathleen Rice Simpson is the Editor-in-Chief of MCN. She did not participate in the peer review process or in the editorial decision for this article. An editorial board member acting as associate editor managed the peer review and editorial decision processes.

Background: As part of an ongoing study about nurse staffing during labor and birth sponsored by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), outcomes that may be linked to aspects of labor nursing were considered. The purpose of this study was to see if labor nurses felt they influenced whether a woman has a cesarean birth. These data were used to determine if cesarean birth should be included as an outcome measure in the multistate labor nurse staffing study.

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