Health care professionals are charged with providing clinically effective care, or "best practice", for all patients and clients. In order to do this the policies, procedures, and guidelines used to direct nursing practice need to be evidence based. This means that nursing practice needs to de-emphasize ritualistic and ungrounded traditions and instead emphasize the use of research findings, quality improvement data, and the consensus of recognized experts in order to provide the best care possible.
For one of my classes we are asked to explore in further detail an aspect of "best practice" in maternal health nursing that interests us. I thought I would throw it out to you mothers to see if there is anything that you thought about in your own experience that you would maybe like more information on. Some examples given in class were formula vs. breastfeeding and continuous fetal monitoring during labor vs. intermittent monitoring.
My group has been throwing around ideas, but it would be wonderful to do it about something that actually matters to mothers. If there is anything you have been wondering about I would love to hear about it and maybe we could work it into a "best practice" research project. Or even if you know of something that you have researched and found interesting, I'd love to hear about that too.
We even get (have) to present our papers to our classmates at the end of the semester.... can't wait!
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